All 6 Uses of
peerage
in
Bleak House
- He is found sometimes, speechless but quite at home, at corners of dinner-tables in great country houses and near doors of drawing-rooms, concerning which the fashionable intelligence is eloquent, where everybody knows him and where half the Peerage stops to say "How do you do, Mr. Tulkinghorn?"†
Chpt 1-3
- The middle-aged man in the pew knows scarcely more of the affairs of the peerage than any crossing-sweeper in Holborn.†
Chpt 10-12 *
- The apt old scholar of the old school, with his dull black breeches tied with ribbons at the knees, his large black waistcoat, his longsleeved black coat, and his wisp of limp white neckerchief tied in the bow the peerage knows so well, stands in exactly the same place and attitude.†
Chpt 10-12
- The peerage may have warmer worshippers and faithfuller believers than Mr. Tulkinghorn, after all, if everything were known.†
Chpt 25-27
- Now, as heretofore, he is to be found in doorways of rooms, with his limp white cravat loosely twisted into its old-fashioned tie, receiving patronage from the peerage and making no sign.†
Chpt 46-48
- The peerage contributes more four-wheeled affliction than has ever been seen in that neighbourhood.†
Chpt 52-54
Definition:
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(peerage) the members of upper nobility in Great Britain considered as a group
or:
the title or rank of upper nobility