Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
squirearchy .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The gentlemen, or gentry, of a country, collectively.
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- noun Alternative form of
squirearchy .
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Examples
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Mohawks, -- whelps of the squirarchy and hobbledehoys of the universities, -- Squire Gawkies and Squire Westerns and Tony Lumpkins,
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Various
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"Why should the real democracy of a young country be tied to your snobbish old squirarchy?"
The New Jerusalem 1905
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_Zemindars_, who had waxed fat on the Permanent Settlement, and the credulous _rayats_, whose labour is indispensable to the _zemindar_ squirarchy.
Indian Unrest Valentine Chirol 1890
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Finally, during the last half of the 19th Century, the Closed Domesticated Nuclear Family emerges among "the upper bourgeoisie and squirarchy" (pp. 7-8):
The Valve 2010
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_squirarchy_ of the county were assembled, with some few exceptions.
Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2 Henry Hunt 1804
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