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
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
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
Besides being a peeress by marriage, she is the daughter of an earl, an aristocrat born and bred.
From Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations by Alexander, Mrs.
