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

With due appreciation to the Queen, Nancy Astor said: "I hope they will create me a lifetime peeress!"

From Time Magazine Archive

In the House of Lords, a Laborite peeress asked scathingly if the government considered it "conducive to British prestige that holders of British passports should be wandering about the world like Flying Dutchmen."

From Time Magazine Archive

The man is a Lord, and the woman he marries will be a peeress; and there 's not another country in Europe in which that word means as much.

From The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly by Lever, Charles James