contessa

Had Violet signed the marriage contract with her right hand, the law would have made her a miserable contessa, but because she signed it with her left, she remained, to her relief, a miserable orphan.

I had seen Chloe Marsh earlier in the day—very pretty, with a face shaped like a soft heart and with a delicate nose and lips like a contessa in a Renaissance portrait.

And the clerks treat even commoners like contessas.

The consequence of this recital was that Podstadsky's young acquaintances were clamorous for presentation to la contessa.