Definitionn. the dignity or rank or position of a duke
Last update: July 13, 2015
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The head of her elder brother, the boy earl marshal, had been stricken off in the cornfield under the walls of York, but her younger brother's right to his father's dukedom was allowed by parliament in 1425. [Please select]
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William, fourth earl of Devonshire, although raised to a dukedom by William III. [Please select]
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So his people feared he would not leave any son to inherit his dukedom. [Please select]
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The inheritor of a splendid dukedom might almost have passed for a farm hand. [Please select]
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Some were as large as a European dukedom; others contained only a few thousand _arpents_. [Please select]
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You are aware that he _may_ inherit the dukedom of Chudleigh. [Please select]
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Then she colored, suddenly remembering the possible dukedom that awaited him. [Please select]
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The one terror that haunted his life was the terror of the dukedom. [Please select]
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As a kind of joke, John, King Henry's youngest son, had been called Lackland, because he had nothing when his brothers each had some great dukedom. [Please select]
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Not long after Henry had gone, his old father--John of Gaunt--died, and the king kept all his great dukedom of Lancaster. [Please select]
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