Definition of "peerdom" []

• Peerage (noun)
• A lordship. (noun)

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• "That night the world seemed hushed to listen, the peridom of Britain packing the Gallery with rainbow, and the peerdom those benches and cross-benches, red as massacre and the Scarlet Woman, where thronged"
• "He seems to have fought well for his peerdom, which means this enthrallment was later, his first relationship was fascination, then sophistication (in the original sense of the word)."