peerage
Example Sentences
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The commission can advise but has no veto over peerage appointments, which are ultimately decided by prime minsters and formalised by the Queen.
From BBC
He was reinstated to the party and awarded a peerage at the end of last year.
From BBC
They may be used for royal declarations or the granting of titles such as peerages.
From BBC
Among the Indian elite, this British experience had "something of the snob value of a peerage in Great Britain," one of the Bonarjee clan remarked.
From BBC
This led the Crown to grant peerages to a number of people of color, including Simon’s family.
From New York Times
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