peerage

peerage

English

Etymology

    Inherited from Middle English perage, from Old French parage. By surface analysis, peer +‎ -age. Doublet of parage.

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    Noun

    peerage (countable and uncountable, plural peerages)

    1. Peers as a group; the titled nobility or aristocracy.
    2. The rank or title of a peer or peeress.
      • 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Tremarn Case”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC, section 2, page 173:
        “Two or three months more went by; the public were eagerly awaiting the arrival of this semi-exotic claimant to an English peerage, and sensations, surpassing those of the Tichborne case, were looked forward to with palpitating interest.
    3. A book listing such people and their families.

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    • “peerage”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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