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