Both Uses of
peerage
in
Arrowsmith
- 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.†
Chpt 6 *
- Like most American cosmopolites she revered the English peerage, adopted all their standards and beliefs—or what she considered their standards and beliefs—and treasured her encounters with them.†
Chpt 37
Definitions:
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(1)
(peerage) the members of upper nobility in Great Britain considered as a group
or:
the title or rank of upper nobility -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus