peerage

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France which we call the peerage, and his intelligent legs rest on the velvet benches of the Luxembourg.

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  1. noun The rank, title, or jurisdiction of a peer or peeress; a duchy, marquisate, county, viscountcy, or barony.
  2. noun Peers and peeresses considered as a group.
  3. noun A book listing peers, peeresses, and their families.

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  • "I am the heir to a peerage, and my grandfather--well, I need not speak of him. —  Patsy
  • Had it been a few days later, the rains, which had already commenced, would have filled the passes, and confined the troops prisoners on the plateau land until their subsidence The result of this expedition gave great satisfaction at home, and a peerage was conferred upon the able and fortunate commander, under the title of Napier of Magdala CHAPTER TWENTY THE ASHANTI WAR--1874 Seven years after the Abyssinian campaign another African war broke out, this time upon the western coast Here, at a short distance above the line, lies the British colony of Cape Coast. —  Our Sailors Gallant Deeds of the British Navy during Victoria's Reign
  • The first professional artist to be honored with a peerage was Lord Leighton, in 1896 Lord Kelvin and Lord Lister are among well-known men of science who have been so honored. —  The Governments of Europe
  • Like most of those families who had been elevated by the Stuarts to the peerage, the house of Carnegie retained a strong sense of their duty of allegiance to the Crown; and the first Earl of Southesk suffered for his principles by imprisonment and the extortion of a fine of three thousand pounds from his estates in the time of Cromwell James, the fifth Earl of Southesk, although nearly allied by his mother's side to the Maitlands, Earls of Lauderdale, had retained as great an affection for the Stuarts as his ancestors had manifested. —  Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.
  • Some of the noblest characters of England are to be found in the peerage--men who "fear God and work righteousness." —  Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland
 

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