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baronetage

/bar-uh-nit-ij, -net-/US // ˈbær ə nɪt ɪdʒ, -ˌnɛt- //UK // (ˈbærənɪtɪdʒ) //

男爵府,男爵府的

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : baronets collectively.
    • : baronetcy.

Examples

  • Lodge's Peerage and Baronetage is acknowledged to be the most complete, as well as the most elegant, work of the kind.

  • The landlady recognised his baronetage with a little courtesy.

  • Why does not some one publish a list of the young male nobility and baronetage, their names, weights, and probable fortunes?

  • It leaves out of sight the most endearing, because the most human, trait of the baronetage—its pecuniary origin.

  • So I told a puppy of a nephew of mine, who would go and buy a baronetage, forsooth—disinherited him!