All 4 Uses of
pedigree
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- 'Talking of the baron's ancestor puts me in mind of the baron's great claims to respect, on the score of his pedigree.†
Chpt 6 *
- The last man, whoever he is—and he may be a cobbler or some low vulgar dog for aught we know—will have a longer pedigree than the greatest nobleman now alive; and I contend that this is not fair.†
Chpt 6
- The Grogzwig coffers ran low, though the Swillenhausen family had looked upon them as inexhaustible; and just when the baroness was on the point of making a thirteenth addition to the family pedigree, Von Koeldwethout discovered that he had no means of replenishing them.†
Chpt 6
- …stammered forth a variety of most unaccountable and entangled sentences, the upshot of which was, that Mrs Kenwigs had examined him, at great length that morning, touching the origin of his acquaintance with, and the whole life, adventures, and pedigree of, Nicholas; that Newman had parried these questions as long as he could, but being, at length, hard pressed and driven into a corner, had gone so far as to admit, that Nicholas was a tutor of great accomplishments, involved in some…†
Chpt 16
Definition:
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(pedigree) the line of ancestors of an animal
or more rarely:
the line of ancestors for a person; or general background of a person such as experience and education; or any background such as that of an idea