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countable and uncountable, plural peerages
Peers as a group; the titled nobility or aristocracy. examples
The rank or title of a peer or peeress. quotations examples
“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 Tichbourne case, were looked forward to with palpitating interest. […]”
1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 2, in The Tremarn Case
A book listing such people and their families. examples