"belted earl" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1728, Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie, The History of Scotland from 1436 to 1565, Glasgow, published 1749, page 14",
          "text": "This William was the sixth belted earl of that house of Douglas.",
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          "ref": "1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 2, in Anne of Green Gables",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1945, Sinclair Lewis, Cass Timberlane: A Novel of Husbands and Wives, Chapter",
          "text": "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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        "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."
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      "related": [
        {
          "word": "belted knight"
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  "pos": "noun",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 2, in Anne of Green Gables",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1945, Sinclair Lewis, Cass Timberlane: A Novel of Husbands and Wives, Chapter",
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