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Originally Posted by GA Russell
Live and learn...That's two of you who have used the word "dukedom". I thought that there was no such word, and that Gene Chandler was in error when singing The Duke of Earl.
I thought the word in English was "duchy".
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"Duchy" refers to the territory ruled by a duke (or ruling duchess). "Dukedom" can be a synonym for duchy, but it also has the meaning of "The office or dignity of a duke" (quoting from the OED). There's also "dukedomship" and "dukehood", but those are in the obsolete, or too much of a good thing, category.
