dukedom

How To Use dukedom In A Sentence

• He was more miserly with titles than any sovereign since Elizabeth I - ensuring, for example, that dukedoms were reserved for the royal family alone.
• You will lose the dukedom if you marry this girl.
• His horse got to be prime minister, and he apparently sold a chart-topping number of dukedoms, earldoms and baronetcies.
• Everyone in the dukedom heard of her well-aimed book but not all cheered.
• The walls, plastered with painted murals of epic battles and heroic deeds, were additionally decorated with the colorful banners and standards of several dukedoms.
• His horse got to be prime minister, and he apparently sold a chart-topping number of dukedoms, earldoms and baronetcies.
• Italy there were so many forms of government, dukedoms, baronies, marquisates, signories, city republics, each with its own custom regulations, not to speak of each having its own coinage and language, that travelers encountered obstacles almost at every step. Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920
• He was degraded from his dukedom in 1399, and was beheaded in January of the following year for conspiring against Henry IV.
• But it is not this that allows him to trace his ancestors; it is the fact that he has another title, much older than dukedoms and infinitely grander in its simplicity.
• Queen Victoria's daughter Princess Louise was a trendsetter when she married the Marquis of Lorne, heir to the dukedom of Argyll, in 1871.