peerage
IPA: pˈɪrʌdʒ
noun
- Peers as a group; the titled nobility or aristocracy.
- The rank or title of a peer or peeress.
- A book listing such people and their families.
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Examples of "peerage" in Sentences
- This peerage became abeyant in 1406.
- The creation was in the Peerage of England.
- The 'peerage' is the nobility of the United Kingdom.
- The 17th century was the golden epoque of the peerage.
- The peerage remained in abeyance for the next 413 years.
- However, he disclaimed the peerage for life the same year.
- Peerages can not become abeyant in the Peerage of Scotland.
- The name baronet is a diminutive of the peerage title baron.
- The Astons were later raised to the baronetage and to the peerage.
- The peerages became extinct on the death of the third Viscount in 1741.
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