Also squireage. [f. SQUIRE sb. + -AGE.] The body of country squires; a book containing a list or account of these.
1837. J. Sinclair, Life Sir J. Sinclair, I. 187. Some one asked Mr. Bosville whether he intended purchasing ‘the new Baronetage?’—‘No,’ replied the humourist, ‘I am waiting till the Squirage comes out.’
1872. De Morgan, Budget of Paradoxes, 46. The old French aristocracy would have been as prosperous at this moment as the English peerage and squireage.
