contessa
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A contessa has her eyes on a surfer whose beach faces a threat from imposing bodybuilders.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2020
In short order, the contessa and her stepdaughter Atta fell under his spell.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 8, 2018
There “was quite a lot of lore and folklore about the contessa and the amazing lifestyle she led,” Mr. Briggs said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2016
The dishes featured on certainly look delectable—fun, flavor-packed, and achievable at home—but the show is as much about Ina Garten, the contessa herself, as it is about the food.
From Slate ● Jun. 21, 2013
Had Violet signed the marriage contract with her right hand, the law would have made her a miserable contessa, but because she signed it with her left, she remained, to her relief, a miserable orphan.
From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket
And the clerks treat even commoners like contessas.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2013
Then there are people who bring to the eye not a glint of fury but the glaze of fatigue: marchesas, contessas and baronets, Weathermen, Gabors, psychologists with pipes, Latin American colonels.
From Time Magazine Archive
To jaded Rome's courtiers, cardinals and contesse, young Benjamin West seemed the essence of Jean Jacques Rousseau's "natural man."
From Time Magazine Archive
