squiˈrocracy rare.
[f. squire n. + -ocracy.]
= squirearchy1.
| 1834 Tait's Mag. I. 276 How little of community of interest..exists between the people and the Squirocracy. 1890 C. Martyn W. Phillips 159 Half a dozen prominent and elderly squires dominated it [Concord, Mass.]... The squirocracy naturally sympathized with the slavocracy. |