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peerage

System of noble ranks

• noblemanMale of aristocratic rank
• dukeHighest-ranking nobleman
• earlBritish hereditary noble rank

viscount · baron · marquess · countess · baronet · blueblood · patrician · gentry · landed · hereditary

Eton

Elite English boarding school

• OxfordHistoric English university town
• AscotBritish racing venue town
• HenleyEnglish rowing competition town

squire · gentleman · dowager · debutante · peerage · landed · manor · estate · titled · House of Lords

Victorian

Of a prim era

• EdwardianOf early twentieth-century Britain
• RegencyProxy rule period
• carriageWheeled passenger vehicle

waistcoat · tophat · monocle · valet · footman · butler · manor · estate · drawing-room · snuffbox

address

Speak to formally

• honorificRespectful form of address
• bowRespectful forward inclination
• obeisanceGesture of reverence

reverence · homage · servility · deferential · subservience · courtesy · respect · fealty · submission · politeness

• titlesMr., Mrs., Ms., Dr., Miss
• Lordsliege, suzerain, baron, count, earl
• Shakespearean wordsforsooth, hither, thither, wherefore, prithee
• archaic Englishthou, thee, thy, thine, ye
• archaic wordsthee, thou, thy, thine, tis
• deferencedeference, bow, curtsy, genuflect, kneeling