peerage
nounAU, UK /ˈpɪə.ɪdʒ/ · CA, US /ˈpɪɹ.ɪdʒ/
Etymology Inherited from Middle English perage, from Old French parage. By surface analysis, peer + -age. Doublet of parage.
1
Peers as a group; the titled nobility or aristocracy.
2
The rank or title of a peer or peeress.
- “Two or three months more went by; the public were eagerly awaiting the arrival of this semi-exotic claimant to an English peerage, and sensations, surpassing those of the Tichborne case, were looked forward to with palpitating interest.1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Tremarn Case”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC, section 2, page 173:
3
A book listing such people and their families.
- Derived terms
- beerage
- Related terms
- aristocracy, bunyip aristocracy