peerage

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Burkes Peerage also traced the Blythe’s back to the village of Gotham, which, according to English legend, was a haunt of madmen.
伯尅貴族名錄還把佈萊斯宗族上溯到哥泰姆，在英國(guó)傳說(shuō)中，這是瘋子出沒(méi)的地方。
Duke of Cambridge - a dukedom is the highest rank in British peerage. Dukes were the the rulers of the provinces and the King's closest peers in centuries gone by.
劍橋公爵——公爵是僅次於國(guó)王或親王的最高級(jí)貴族，是省級(jí)行政區(qū)的統(tǒng)治者。
They were related to the This Family and the That Family, which, as every Southerner knew, entitled them to membership in that enormous peerage which largely populated the Confederacy.
南部人都知道，他們與豪門顯貴的密切關(guān)系讓他們成爲(wèi)了南部邦聯(lián)龐大的貴族堦級(jí)中的一員。

It is notable, too, that representation from the hereditary peerage on that plutocrats' list is falling too.
ECONOMIST: M’lords, ladies and gentlemen
He seems to think (he would not be the first, nor wrong) that you can buy a peerage.
ECONOMIST: Living on his wits The