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baronies
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Barony \Bar"o*ny\, n.; pl. Baronies. [OF. baronie, F. baronnie, LL. baronia. See Baron.]
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.
--Brande & C.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of barony English)
Usage examples of "baronies".
More ssserious is a gathering of minor wizards from many baronies, in Sirlptar.
The Risen King might have a time longer to force Aglirta into being a realm once more, and not a clutch of warring baronies and brigand-roamed wilderlands.
In the time of his long Slumber the land had fallen into a ruin of warring baronies, ruled by barons hard or decadent, but every last one of them deceitful.
With too few warriors and no one to lead them against the whelmed might of two baronies, Bros•tos was doomed.
And once we're out of the forest, Benvenuti, we'll be in the Baronies—which are just as bad as their reputation.
In some parts of the northern Baronies, the nobility's more sophisticated.
In the Baronies, you always travel during the period just before dawn and through the morning.
The Comte was easily the most vicious baron in the whole of the Baronies—and they're all vicious to begin with.
There was this much to be said for the wretched terrain of the Baronies—a man on foot could travel almost as fast as a mounted one.
By now, I'd seen enough of the Baronies to realize that the Baron himself and his armed retainers would be entirely engrossed with their entertainment.
Gwendolyn had never made any mention of a "servant class" in the Baronies, but I assumed such creatures must exist.
Servants in the Baronies, I had no doubt, soon enough had any sense of alertness beaten out of them.
Five chairs were positioned at that table, each of them occupied by one of the ruffians who passed as "feudal retainers" in the Baronies.
Clearly enough, no one in the Baronies not privy to the truth would have any doubt that the spirit of the Sieur de Pouilleux had committed the massacre.
Every two years they gathered at Sirlptar to exchange news, decide which towns and baronies were to go "under the ban" and hear no tales or harping for a time, and consider which bans should be lifted.