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Definition

the members of upper nobility in Great Britain considered as a group

or:

the title or rank of upper nobility

In the British peerage system, individuals are ennobled — not families.

At Lady Sligo's I remember pressing some spruce boy to tell me how life was lived in the peerage; whether Garters were taken seriously.
Virginia Woolf -- A Sketch of the Past
A baronetcy was spoken of with confidence; a peerage was frequently mentioned.
Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
I believe, according to the peerage, it is ten years, but ten years with Monmouth must have been like eternity, with time thrown in.
Oscar Wilde -- The Picture of Dorian Gray
We haven't got peerage and social climbing to occupy us much, and decent people do not take interest in politics or elderly people in sport.
Ford Madox Ford -- The Good Soldier
He is thirty-three years old; I looked in the Peerage.
Henry James -- The American
And what are his claims to the peerage?
Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
Not only is he of the British peerage, but he is also, on dit, a leader of the British metal industries.
Sinclair Lewis -- Babbitt
While she was gone to cry her farewells over the pork, I gave that whole peerage away to the servants.
Mark Twain -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
He was not to be numbered among the aldermen—that Peerage of burghers—as he had expected to be, and the consciousness of this soured him to-day.
Thomas Hardy -- The Mayor of Casterbridge
"King Lot," said he, "is simply a member of your peerage and landed royalty.
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
Her husband was a man whose peerage was treated as the convenient afterthought.
Tom Clancy -- The Hunt for Red October
—or from Fitzalan and De Vere, her maternal grandfather having had a cousin in the peerage?
Thomas Hardy -- The Return of the Native
The middle-aged man in the pew knows scarcely more of the affairs of the peerage than any crossing-sweeper in Holborn.
Charles Dickens -- Bleak House
We in the peerage are forgiving.
Gail Carson Levine -- Ella Enchanted
When I walked into his office on Monday afternoon, General Bentley Durrell looked like the last surviving member of an elite but critically endangered peerage.
Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
Her husband was really deserving of her; independent of his peerage, his wealth, and his attachment, being to a precision the most charming young man in the world.
Jane Austen -- Northanger Abbey
He came home and looked out his history in the Peerage: he introduced his name into his daily conversation; he bragged about his Lordship to his daughters.
William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
Martin was astonished by the familiarity; he remembered that she had once gone to a charity ball in Zenith but he had not known that she was so intimate with the peerage.
Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith
Hence his peerage.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables

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