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belted earl

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belted earl (複数形 belted earls)

1. An earl whose title goes back to the period prior to the 18th century when a sword and belt received from the monarch were tokens of that title.
   • 1728, Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie, The History of Scotland from 1436 to 1565, Glasgow, 1749, p. 14, [1]
     This William was the sixth belted earl of that house of Douglas.
   • 1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, Chapter 2, [2]
     It was pretty interesting to imagine things about them—to imagine that perhaps the girl who sat next to you was really the daughter of a belted earl, who had been stolen away from her parents in her infancy by a cruel nurse who died before she could confess.
   • 1945, Sinclair Lewis, Cass Timberlane: A Novel of Husbands and Wives, Chapter, [3]
     It was Boone Havock and his immense and parrot-squawking wife Queenie who were the great people, the belted earl and terraced countess, of the occasion […]

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