"squirearchy" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "squire + -archy",
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          "ref": "1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 3, in Babbitt",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "1930 [Cambridge University Press], G. G. Coulton, The Medieval Scene: An Informal Introduction to the Middle Ages, 2000, Dover, page 37,\nWe 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."
        },
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          "ref": "1972, James A. Burkhart, Samuel Krislov, Raymond Lawrence Lee, American Government: the Clash of Issues, Prentice-Hall, page 92",
          "text": "For many years a combination of rural squirearchies and business interests held tight control of most state capitols.",
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        "The landowning gentry."
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        {
          "word": "squirarchy"
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          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "zemevladelci",
          "sense": "landowning gentry",
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            "masculine",
            "plural"
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          "word": "земевладелци"
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          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "landowning gentry",
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          "word": "landadel"
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          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "landowning gentry",
          "word": "landadel"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "landowning gentry",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "noblesse de provence"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "squirearchy"
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          "ref": "1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 3, in Babbitt",
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        },
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          "text": "1930 [Cambridge University Press], G. G. Coulton, The Medieval Scene: An Informal Introduction to the Middle Ages, 2000, Dover, page 37,\nWe 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."
        },
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      "roman": "zemevladelci",
      "sense": "landowning gentry",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "земевладелци"
    },
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      "sense": "landowning gentry",
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      "word": "landadel"
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      "sense": "landowning gentry",
      "word": "landadel"
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      "sense": "landowning gentry",
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      "word": "noblesse de provence"
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  "word": "squirearchy"
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