contessa
Example Sentences
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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 Literature
A contessa has her eyes on a surfer whose beach faces a threat from imposing bodybuilders.
From Los Angeles Times
I had seen Chloe Marsh earlier in the day—very pretty, with a face shaped like a soft heart and with a delicate nose and lips like a contessa in a Renaissance portrait.
From Literature
And the clerks treat even commoners like contessas.
From New York Times
But without quite putting the notion into words, she had always felt it was just as well that Harriet was an Italian contessa four thousand miles away.
From Project Gutenberg
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
