baronage
Americannoun
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the entire British peerage, including all dukes, marquesses, earls, viscounts, and barons.
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Also the dignity or rank of a baron.
noun
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barons collectively
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the rank or dignity of a baron
Etymology
Origin of baronage
1250–1300; Middle English barunage < Anglo-French ( baron, -age ); replacing Middle English barnage < Old French
Example Sentences
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Now the big city machines are shot: Chicago's Jack Arvey could not even carry Cook County; the Tammany Tiger is a sick old alley cat; Boss Hague's Jersey City baronage is gone.
From Time Magazine Archive
A busy and effective behind-the-scenes operator in the political arena, he helped form the wartime government of Lloyd George, was awarded a baronage.
From Time Magazine Archive
Elevated to the baronage, Field Marshal Sir John Harding, former governor of strife-torn Cyprus.
From Time Magazine Archive
Postmaster General Major George Clement Tryon was made Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster with the additional sop of a baronage.
From Time Magazine Archive
Before he had been six months on the throne he was attacked by a league comprising more than half the baronage, and headed by his uncles, bishop Odo of Bayeux and Robert of Mortain.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History by Various
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