"lairdship" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "laird + -ship",
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          "ref": "1715, S.R. Crockett, Bog-Myrtle and Peat",
          "text": "He would as soon have thought of wearing a white linen shirt or having the lairdship of a barony, as of getting ham to his breakfast.",
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          "ref": "1855, Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham, The Complete Works of Robert Burns= Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence.",
          "text": "II. I whyles claw the elbow o' troublesome thought; But man is a sodger, and life is a faught: My mirth and guid humour are coin in my pouch, And my freedom's my lairdship nae monarch dare touch.",
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          "ref": "1918, Mary Johnston, Foes",
          "text": "They talked of affairs, particular and general, of Ian's late proceedings and the lairdship of Alexander, of men and places that they knew away from this countryside.",
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        "The state or condition of being a laird."
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        "(Scotland) The state or condition of being a laird."
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          "text": "'Laird,' said she (for so she always called him, though his lairdship was of the smallest), 'will ye tell them to bury me whaur I'll lie across at your feet?'",
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        "The area of land owned by a laird."
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          "ref": "1715, S.R. Crockett, Bog-Myrtle and Peat",
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        },
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          "ref": "1855, Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham, The Complete Works of Robert Burns= Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence.",
          "text": "II. I whyles claw the elbow o' troublesome thought; But man is a sodger, and life is a faught: My mirth and guid humour are coin in my pouch, And my freedom's my lairdship nae monarch dare touch.",
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