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noun

Peeress n. The wife of a peer; a woman ennobled in her own right, or by right of marriage.

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"Peeress" Quotes from Famous Books

... more pleasure, more excitement. It's been like a brass-band playing all the time, my life this past ten years. I'm sick of it. It's only some big thing that can take me out of it. I've got to make some great plunge, or in a few years more I'll be a middle-aged peeress with nothing left but a double chin, a tongue for gossip, and a string of pearls. There must be a bouleversement of things as they are, or good-bye to everything except emptiness. ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

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Words linked to "Peeress" : peerage, U.K., marchioness, Borgia, UK, baronage, countess, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Lady Godiva, lady-in-waiting, marquise, Godiva, Lady Emma Hamilton, nobleman, Milady, baroness, Britain, United Kingdom