Lexicographical Neighbors of Dukeries
Literary usage of Dukeries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Great Britain: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1906)
"The district known as the 'dukeries', so called from the number of ducal residences
it ... The imposing mansions of ihe dukeries offer much of interest in ..."
2. Among English Inns: The Story of a Pilgrimage to Characteristic Spots of by Josephine Tozier (1904)
"... all members of the same distinguished family, have those great estates in and
about Sherwood Forest, which are embraced under the title of The dukeries. ..."
3. Society in the Country House by Thomas Hay Sweet Escott (1907)
"CHAPTER II THE SUSSEX dukeries AND NON-dukeries Arundel Castle: its development,
mythical, feudal, convivial, aristocratic, democratic—The eleventh Duke of ..."
4. A History of Nottinghamshire by Cornelius Brown (1891)
"Worksop and 'The dukeries'—The ... The noble seats which have won for the district
the name of' The dukeries'— Clumber, Thoresby, and Welbeck—give a charm ..."
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