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

The peer and the peeress sang the words for the delegates near them.'

From Time Magazine Archive

"Lord Quorn?" the wily peeress inquired sweetly, looking from one to the other; and for once, perhaps naturally, at fault.

From A Poached Peerage by Magnay, William