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dukery|ˈdjuːkərɪ|
Also 6 Sc. duikrie.
[f. duke n.: see -ery, -ry.]
1.
†a. The office or dignity of a duke, a dukedom (obs.).
b. The territory ruled by a duke, a duchy. (Now only as nonce-wd.)
c1565Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (1728) 9 To give him the dukery of Turine. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. x. 338 He hechtis the forsaid duikrie to the Gouernour. 1855Carlyle Prinzenraub Misc. Ess. 1872 VII. 162 The Albertine line..made apanages, subdivisions, unintelligible little dukes and dukeries of a similar kind.
2. The residence or estate of a duke; spec. (usually pl., the Dukeries) a district in Nottinghamshire containing several ducal estates.
1837Southey in Q. Rev. LIX. 291 A Rookery has been demolished, and a Dukery planted in its stead. 1879Standard 8 Dec. (D.), The Dukeries still exist, but they are little more than a geographical expression. Welbeck Abbey is the last of those palaces for which this part of England was formerly famous. 1884L. J. Jennings in Croker Papers III. xxv. 166 Thoresby, the second of the three famous ‘Dukeries’ which comprise within their domains the scenes of Robin Hood's most popular exploits. |