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peeress

noun as in baroness

noun as in noblewoman

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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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On this page you'll find 17 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to peeress, such as: aristocrat, gentlewoman, and lady.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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