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