peeress
Example Sentences
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But don't say 'British Peeress Came Back to Criticize'�because 't aint true.
From Time Magazine Archive
Peeress will chaperon girl for season in London, or would sponsor married woman.
From Time Magazine Archive
William’s successful occupation of Ireland, where her husband was Lord Deputy, reduced her to poverty and obscurity, and she was probably the first Peeress who ever took to millinery as a livelihood.
From Reviews by Wilde, Oscar
No Peeress at our Drawing-Room before the Presence passes Who wouldn't be accepted by the lower-middle classes; Each shady dame, whatever be her rank, is bowed out neatly.
From Songs of a Savoyard by Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), Sir
And this Revival of the Chignon low That fills the most of us with helpless Woe, Ah, criticise it Softly! for who knows What long-necked Peeress had to wear it so!
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 4 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert
