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countess

[kaun-tis] / ˈkaʊn tɪs /






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In 2017, Epstein introduced Barrett to Nicole Junkermann, a German countess and entrepreneur who Epstein said in an email wanted to invest $100 million through JPMorgan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

And when it comes to immortality, she's "not sure" she would want to share that with her countess character.

From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026

The dowager countess haunts the film, Fellowes says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2025

As an American woman who married into the British aristocracy back in 2004, the countess knows firsthand the challenge of slipping between two cultures.

From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2025

It was the countess who was responsible for creating a feeling of great fellowship among us.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

Yesterday’s countesses lacked those freedoms and were bound to serve as propriety’s standard bearers.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2025

He jived and twisted with Gloria Vanderbilt and a succession of foreign countesses.

From MSNBC ● Nov. 15, 2017

Malloy saw his own artsy social circle in the novel’s princes and countesses.

From The New Yorker ● May 5, 2017

Designer Ulyana Sergeenko flew in from Moscow to show a delightful collection inspired by Soviet life under the Bolsheviks, where countesses and peasants lived together in once-grand apartments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2015

The little countesses had to stop buying chocolates.

From The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age by Albert Bigelow Paine




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