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
Deft deflater ... of pedantic pomposity, peerless peeress among her presidential peers, who knits serenely as the tumbrels cart off many a less resilient colleague from academic heights .
From Time Magazine Archive
The son's wife, Hsiao Li, who served with Red-sympathizing Michael in Mao Tse-tung's guerrilla forces in 1941-45, is the first Chinese woman ever to become a British peeress.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lady Amberley is a trump, and I am glad she says a word for her poor sex though she is a peeress....
From Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals by Louisa May Alcott
