baronet

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Recent Examples of baronet And with Crimson Peak, del Toro swings for the fences, with big gestures from English baronet Sir Thomas Sharpe (Tom Hiddleson) to prove his love for American heiress Edith Cushing (Mia Wasikowska), a big decaying mansion, and big ghost energy. Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 21 Aug. 2024 For one, Lady Valerie Meux, a banjo-playing music hall singer who married a British baronet, became a social sensation and quirky philanthropist, and was known to drive around London in a carriage pulled by a pair of zebras. Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2024 As a baronet descended, Brooksbank comes from the only class of British nobility not part of the peerage, the ranks of which consist (in descending order of precedence) of duke, marquess, earl, viscount, and baron. Sabrina Park, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Apr. 2023 Fanny Price, an outsider at Mansfield, undergoes a series of harrowing social trials, and marries the baronet’s son. Elif Batuman, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2023 An old friend from her days as a blushing London socialite, Colthurst shared her stately pedigree; as the second son of an Irish baronet, his family home was a literal castle. Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 10 Nov. 2022 The interiors, though, would be more likely to confuse its 19th-century baronet owners. Zoe Dubno, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2022 First laid out for the sixth baronet in 1848, the Parterre was traditionally planted three times a year to match the Bedingfelds’ heraldry: a red medallion amid a field of blue and yellow. Jordan Kushins David Fernández, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for baronet
Noun
  • In the book, Benedict falls for Sophie Beckett, the daughter of an earl who’s been hidden away from the Ton and forced to work as a housemaid by her spiteful stepmother.
    Radhika Seth, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2025
  • With James' support, George became an earl, a marquess and ultimately a duke (a rarity for nonroyals).
    Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2024
Noun
  • So no wonder that his engagement with the human cost of rapid industrialization in early 20th century Bohemia fed into his depiction in the novel of social conditions in robber-baron America.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Their father, beer baron Sir Benjamin Guinness — the grandson of the founder of the Guinness Brewery, Arthur Guinness — has died, and their futures will now be determined by their father's will.
    Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 28 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The viscount’s son, the Marquis of Praia and Monforte, added a second floor and greatly expanded the garden surrounding it, purchasing ten more hectares and bringing the property to 12.5 hectares (31 acres) and turning parts of it into a romantic garden in the English fashion.
    Ann Abel, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
  • The other half, however, followed the taste of the viscount and was more classical.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Seat of the Cholmondeley family for centuries, the Norfolk pile has also become one of the nation’s most galvanizing stages for contemporary art, thanks to David Cholmondeley, the filmmaker seventh marquess of the line, and his wife, Rose.
    Mitchell Owens, Architectural Digest, 2 Aug. 2024
  • An early Titian masterpiece — once looted by Napolean’s troops and a part of royal collections for centuries — caused a stir when it was stolen from the home of a British marquess in 1995.
    Niha Masih, Washington Post, 4 July 2024
Noun
  • Norton, who also serves as an executive producer through his company Rabbit Track Pictures, brings intensity to the role of the doomed English king, while Coster-Waldau delivers a commanding performance as the Norman duke who would reshape English history.
    Jenzia Burgos, StyleCaster, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Sources close to Harry previously told People that the duke had struggled to connect with his father in recent months, claiming that Charles — who was diagnosed with cancer in 2024 — had stopped answering his calls and letters.
    Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 27 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • At the end of their version of Cinderella, the tragic stepsisters cut off the backs of their heels to try to fit into the glass slipper; the prince only notices the deception when their stockings fill with blood.
    Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 3 Oct. 2025
  • James pointed out that Tindall pulled George into a hug and kissed him on the head while the prince and his siblings were greeting well-wishers.
    Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • These men were called squires for most of the Middle Ages, but esquire began to appear in the 15th century.
    Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 June 2022
Noun
  • Since many of his fellow princelings served in the senior ranks, however, Xi was better attuned to the politics within the military.
    JONATHAN A. CZIN, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2025
  • This innately good-hearted princeling is the only compelling character.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024

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