colonelcy
noun
the rank, position, or status of a colonel.
colonelship
-
a variation of
colonelcy.
Example Sentences
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How he bought himself into that colonelship of Dragoons, invented that band uniform, scattered those broad pieces at play, kept that stable of English hunters, and boasted of those interminable ancestries in Burgundy!
From The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette by W. D. (William Douw) Lighthall
I was proud of his colonelship, and much exercised because he had no shoulder-straps.
From The Women of the Confederacy by J. L. Underwood
And so, his colonelship is gone forth with the stoutest and the best horsewhip he could find.
From The Vicar of Wrexhill by Mrs Trollope
Although he hath fought for the wrong side to our thinking, bravely hath he fought, and made his way to a colonelship, worth five thousand dollars, if ever they pay their wages.
From Erema — My Father's Sin by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
They were about getting up a new regiment of militia there, and a Captain Mathews, an ambitious, well-to-do settler, with cribs full of corn, was a candidate for the colonelship.
From David Crockett His Life and Adventures by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
