Etymology

baronage

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Today it means: barons or nobles collectively Full definition →

Middle English barnage
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  1. Middle English · inherited frombarnage
  2. English todaybaronage

From Middle English barnage, from Old French (and Anglo-Norman) barnage, from baron + -age, with the loss of a syllable.

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