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
In the House of Lords, a Laborite peeress asked scathingly if the government considered it "conducive to British prestige that holders of British passports should be wandering about the world like Flying Dutchmen."
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Peckover, it may be stated, was not wildly interested in the dowager peeress.
From A Poached Peerage by William Magnay
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