squiralty

English edit

Etymology edit

squire +‎ -al +‎ -ty

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ˈskwaɪɹəlti/

Noun edit

squiralty (usually uncountable, plural squiralties)

The land-owning gentry; the squirearchy.
- 1759–1767, [Laurence Sterne], The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volumes (please specify |volume=I to IX), London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […]:
  that such weight and influence be put thereby into the hands of the squiralty of my kingdom

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “squiralty”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)