What is "pedigrees"

Usage examples of "pedigrees".

A duke may write novels worthy of a grocer, even about life in high society, titles and pedigrees being of no help to him there, and the epithet 'aristocratic' be earned by the writings of a plebeian.

That is to say, I have examined many scores of pedigrees which have already been erected, and I am sure I could do it myself if I were to be entrusted with such a task.

I mean, people who want genealogies erected and pedigrees searched don't usually know these things.

The first of these—their names, and the pedigrees attached—suffice to get them in the gates.