Peerage

created by Webster 1913

(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) I like it! Wed Dec 22 1999 at 1:52:32

Peer"age (?), n. [See Peer an equal, and cf. Parage.]

The rank or dignity of a peer.

Blackstone.

The body of peers; the nobility, collectively.

When Charlemain with all his peerage fell. Milton.

British Order of Precedence	Hereditary peer	peer	Five Degrees of the Peerage
British Honours System	Five Classes of the Peerage	Prayer to St. Michael	Peerage Act 1963
Peerage of Scotland	The obituary of Johnny Kimberley, 4th Earl of Kimberley	Life peer	Baronetage
British History	Life Peerages Act 1958	The Honorable President Lissajous	Conrad Black
P.D. James	Abeyance	Parage	baronet
Mme de Sévigné	Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers	Twelve peers of France	Seven peers of Scotland

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