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Squirearchy

noun
1.
The gentry who own land (considered as a class).  Synonym: landed gentry.






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"Squirearchy" Quotes from Famous Books



... five seasons; and so, out of her father's property on to that of Jim Graham, in which blood relations of the Kencote game and vermin were protected with equal care, in order that the Grahams might fulfil the destiny appointed for them and the Clintons and the whole race of squirearchy alike. ...
— The Squire's Daughter - Being the First Book in the Chronicles of the Clintons • Archibald Marshall

... thousand pities. She could talk, and did talk, to Ferdinand about the Whartons, and about old Mrs. Fletcher, and described to him the arrogance and the stiffness and the ignorance of the Herefordshire squirearchy generally; but she never spoke to him of Arthur Fletcher,—except in that one narrative of her past life, in which, girl-like, she told her lover of the one other lover ...
— The Prime Minister • Anthony Trollope



Words linked to "Squirearchy" :   gentry, landed gentry, aristocracy



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