squirearchyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

squire +‎ -archy^[1]

名詞

squirearchy (複数形 squirearchies)

1. The landowning gentry.
   • 1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 3, in Babbitt:

     Now, as one of the squirearchy, greeted with honorable salutations by the villagers, he marched into his office, and peace and dignity were upon him, and the morning's dissonances all unheard.

   • 1930 [Cambridge University Press], G. G. Coulton, The Medieval Scene: An Informal Introduction to the Middle Ages, 2000, Dover, page 37,

     We may characterise medieval village government not unfairly as squirearchy, though often a benevolent squirearchy enough, just as the squirearchy of the eighteenth century was often benevolent also.

   • 1972, James A. Burkhart, Samuel Krislov, Raymond Lawrence Lee, American Government: the Clash of Issues, Prentice-Hall, page 92,

     For many years a combination of rural squirearchies and business interests held tight control of most state capitols.

参照

• squirearchy at OneLook Dictionary Search
• “SQUIREARCHY” in Joseph Wright, editor, The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume V (R–S), London: Published by Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1905, →OCLC.

Further reading

• Landed gentry on Wikipedia.