Vocabulary : Baronage to Baroque

Baronage : The whole body of barons or peers. ;; The dignity or rank of a baron. ;; The land which gives title to a baron.
Baroness : A baron's wife; also, a lady who holds the baronial title in her own right; as, the Baroness Burdett-Coutts.
Baronet : A dignity or degree of honor next below a baron and above a knight, having precedency of all orders of knights except those of the Garter. It is the lowest degree of honor that is hereditary. The baronets are commoners.
Baronetage : State or rank of a baronet. ;; The collective body of baronets.
Baronetcy : The rank or patent of a baronet.

Barong : A kind of cutting weapon with a thick back and thin razorlike edge, used by the Moros of the Philippine Islands.
Baronial : Pertaining to a baron or a barony.
Baronies : of Barony
Barony : The fee or domain of a baron; the lordship, dignity, or rank of a baron. ;; In Ireland, a territorial division, corresponding nearly to the English hundred, and supposed to have been originally the district of a native chief. There are 252 of these baronies. In Scotland, an extensive freehold. It may be held by a commoner.
Baroque : In bad taste; grotesque; odd. ;; Irregular in form; -- said esp. of a pearl.

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