squirarchy

[ skwahyuhr-ahr-kee ]

noun

, plural squir·ar·chies.

1. squirearchy.

Other Words From

• squir·archal squir·archi·cal adjective

Example Sentences

These are just the people qualified to relieve their older neighbours, the local squirarchy, in their administrative work.

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Anything that hurt the ruck, made them more work or injured them in any way, was sport for the squirarchy.

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He hitched her around and held her curled to his chest, faintly conscious of the smooth body, but concentrating on protecting her from harm; he thought suddenly that he was treating her as if she'd been a ruck woman, instead of one of the gentry, the loathed and feared squirarchy.

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And really it is the sad ugliness of our once pleasant Fields that half drives me to the Water where the Power of the Squirarchy stops!

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But we are split up into the pettiest possible Squirarchy, who want to make the utmost of their little territory: cut down all the Trees, level all the old Violet Banks, and stop up all the Footways they can. 

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