Meanings
nounbarristry (plural barristries)
plural barristries
- the art or practice of being a barrister.
Should he plunge boldly and [pretend to] be a barrister? That anyhow was pretty good. But she might know about barristry.
1896, H.G. Wells, chapter 29, in The Wheels of Chance, J.M. Dent
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