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peeress
/ ˈpɪərɪs /
noun
- the wife or widow of a peer
- a woman holding the rank of a peer in her own right
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Example Sentences
Nevertheless she triumphed; he had made her a peeress, and she did care for that; she cared also for the broad lands of Hartledon.
Why should not a peeress feel herself as properly placed among her peers as the Queen seated at her Council?
He afterwards was made secretary of state, married a peeress, and spent his last days at Holland House.
But Lady Shrewsbury was a peeress and the widow of a Talbot, and criminal rank in those days was banished not executed.
My father set my sister up in business as a British peeress and bought her her husband and settled a whacking dower on her.
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