peeress
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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
With due appreciation to the Queen, Nancy Astor said: "I hope they will create me a lifetime peeress!"
From Time Magazine Archive
Deft deflater ... of pedantic pomposity, peerless peeress among her presidential peers, who knits serenely as the tumbrels cart off many a less resilient colleague from academic heights .
From Time Magazine Archive
The man is a Lord, and the woman he marries will be a peeress; and there 's not another country in Europe in which that word means as much.
From The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly by Charles James Lever
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