Meanings
nounaldermanry (countable and uncountable, plural aldermanries)
plural aldermanries
- countableA district of a borough having its own alderman; a ward.
The Auncient diuision of this Cittie, was into Wardes or Aldermanries: and therefore I will beginne at the East, and so proceede thorough the high and most principall streete of the cittie to the west after this manner.
1598–1603, John Stow, edited by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford, A Survey of London […] : Reprinted from the text of 1603, volume I, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, published 1908, page 117
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Origin
From alderman + -ry. Piecewise doublet of ealdormanry.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
French échevinage, échevinat
- échevinagedistrict of a borough having its own alderman — see also ward
- échevinatdistrict of a borough having its own alderman — see also ward
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