different between earldom vs talbot

English

From Middle English erldom, from Old English eorld?m, equivalent to earl +? -dom. Compare English jarldom.

earldom (plural earldoms)

The rank of being an earl.
- 1592, William Shakespeare, King Richard III
  And, look when I am king, claim thou of me / The earldom of Hereford, and all the movables / Whereof the king my brother was possess'd.
The territory controlled by an earl.

After Henry Fox Talbot, a 19th-century pioneer of photography.

talbot (plural talbots)

(physics) An mks unit of luminous energy, exactly corresponding to the SI lumen second.

Possibly after a Norman family Talbot

talbot (plural talbots)

A type of hound with broad mouth and large ears, once used for hunting and tracking.

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