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  • noun Plural form of lordling.

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Examples

  • "Commercial" Conventions, composed of the self-titled lordlings of slavery -- Generals, Colonels, Majors, Captains, etcætera -- may act out their annual programmes of farcical nonsense from now until doomsday; but they will never add one iota to the material, moral, or mental interests of the

    The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It 1857

  • Such hordes of beastly wretchedness and inarticulate misery are no compensation for a millionaire brewer who lives in a West End palace, sates himself with the sensuous delights of London's golden theatres, hobnobs with lordlings and princelings, and is knighted by the king.

    HOPS AND HOPPERS 2010

  • The other two were minor lordlings with varying degrees of capital.

    G'lder Curtis Hox 2011

  • Of course there are—the surgeons who serve the war leaders and lordlings of these parts.

    Dark Moon of Avalon Anna Elliott 2010

  • Of course there are—the surgeons who serve the war leaders and lordlings of these parts.

    Dark Moon of Avalon Anna Elliott 2010

  • Of course there are—the surgeons who serve the war leaders and lordlings of these parts.

    Dark Moon of Avalon Anna Elliott 2010

  • While she summoned, surveyed and dismissed the two lordlings she had been sent to bring in, she did not fail to devote one long glance to Yves, not altogether dismissively, but his mind was on other matters, and he did not observe it.

    A River So Long 2010

  • Waymar could be drinking amongst some other lordlings and Gared could be on duty atop the wall looking over into the Haunted Forest brooding and muttering something about the cold picking up.

    Day 14: More filming in NI 2009

  • Such a view, playing as it did on the popular perception of the Specchio as effete lordlings, concerned only with their fetes, their duels and their striving for notional advantage over their rivals, naturally gained a widespread currency.

    :Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2008

  • Such a view, playing as it did on the popular perception of the Specchio as effete lordlings, concerned only with their fetes, their duels and their striving for notional advantage over their rivals, naturally gained a widespread currency.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Tim Stretton 2008

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