peerage

n.

（统称）贵族；贵族的爵位或头衔；贵族姓名录；贵族阶级

复数：peerages

1. Sir Peter was raised to the peerage.
   彼得先生被封为贵族。
2. The Queen conferred the dignity of a peerage on him.
   女王封他为贵族。
3. The king raised his general to the peerage for winning the war.
   由于赢得了这场战争，国王封他的将军为贵族。
4. After ten years in the government she was given a peerage.
   她在政府中任职十年之后，被授予了爵位。

Duke of Norfolk
Baron Denman
The Soldier in Later Medieval England
Peerage
Reproduction and longevity among the British peerage: the effect of frailty and health selection.
Aristocratic Century: The peerage of eighteenth-century England
Aristocratic century : the peerage of eighteenth-century England / John Cannon
The demography of the British Peerage
Aristocratic century : the peerage of eighteenth-century England. Book review.
Mortality in the British Peerage Families Since 1600