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
Last week this indomitable peeress, who heads today the British Women's Voluntary Services for Civil Defense, announced at Preston in Lancashire an idea as practical as the dictaphone.
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
To be sure, it was not exactly the moment to persuade Davis to expatriate himself when his prospects at home began to brighten, and he saw his daughter a peeress.
From Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Charles James Lever
