belted earl
belted earl · belted earls
An earl whose title goes back to the period prior to the 18th century when a sword and…An earl whose title goes back to the period prior to the 18th century when a sword and belt received from the monarch were tokens of that title.
Meaning
1 sensesAn earl whose title goes back to the period prior to the 18th century when a sword and belt received from the monarch were tokens of that title.
Forms
plural: belted earls| Singular | belted earl |
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Word family
1 related wordsRelatedbelted knight
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.