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knightage|ˈnaɪtɪdʒ|
[f. knight n. + -age.]
a. A body of knights; the whole body of knights.
b. A list and account of persons who are knights.
1840Dod (title) The Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, of Great Britain and Ireland. 1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. I. iii. v. 238 He rode thither with his Anspach Knightage about him, ‘four-hundred cavaliers’. 1900Whitaker's Peerage 44 Wherever in the Knightage the husband is styled ‘Sir’, the wife, in conventional usage, has the title ‘Lady’ or ‘Dame’. |