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Baronetage   Listen
noun
Baronetage  n.  
1.
State or rank of a baronet.
2.
The collective body of baronets.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Baronetage" Quotes from Famous Books



... The members of the peerage and baronetage of Great Britain, the members of the untitled aristocracy—the staff officers of the army and navy—the members of the different clubs—are each of them sufficiently numerous to effect this object; and if ...
— Diary in America, Series Two • Frederick Marryat (AKA Captain Marryat)

... joke and drink his glass with a tenant and sell him up the next day; or have his laugh with the poacher he was transporting with equal good humour. His politeness for the fair sex has already been hinted at by Miss Rebecca Sharp—in a word, the whole baronetage, peerage, commonage of England, did not contain a more cunning, mean, selfish, foolish, disreputable old man. That blood-red hand of Sir Pitt Crawley's would be in anybody's pocket except his own; and it is with grief and pain, that, as admirers of the ...
— Vanity Fair • William Makepeace Thackeray



Words linked to "Baronetage" :   aristocracy, position, spot, nobility, billet, berth



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