peeress
Example Sentences
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However, on her appointment as minister for Europe, she became a peeress in her own right.
From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2023
Which explains how the Mayfair peeress who asked me for cocktails one day has a villa packed with Vieux Paris silver-plate and Louis XVI armchairs covered in needlepoint scenes from La Fontaine’s “Fables.”
From New York Times ● May 20, 2011
If Lady Stanwick had been a peeress in her own right, which is possible, she could not have had a brother.
From Time Magazine Archive
Missing was old Mrs. Vanderbilt, Society's long-time peeress, and Otto Hermann Kahn, for years the Metropolitan's best friend.
From Time Magazine Archive
"She knows that you are a peer of England, and that she is a peeress."
From Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Charles James Lever
