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
The peer and the peeress sang the words for the delegates near them.'
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Then the absurdity of playing peeress to me!
From The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly by Charles James Lever
