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Definition
the members of upper nobility in Great Britain considered as a group
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the title or rank of upper nobility
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the title or rank of upper nobility
- 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.Chapter 6 (94% in)
- 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.Chapter 37 (93% in)
There are no more uses of "peerage" in Arrowsmith.
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