Dukedom
['dʊkdəm]
Definition
(n.) The territory of a duke.
(n.) The title or dignity of a duke.
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Examples
- If you were heir to a dukedom and a thousand pounds a day, do you mean to say you would not wish for possession? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Leave him to the Dukedom; and let you and I stick to the Diamond. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I answer, because his father had the misfortune to be next heir to a Dukedom, and not to be able to prove it. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- You remember the time, Betteredge, he said, when my father was trying to prove his title to that unlucky Dukedom? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
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