Peerage

Definitions

1. Peers as a group; the titled nobility or aristocracy.
   countable, uncountable
2. The rank or title of a peer or peeress.
   countable, uncountable
3. A book listing such people and their families.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

““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 Tichbourne case, were looked forward⟳ to with palpitating interest⟳.[…]””

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