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countess

[koun-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

In the film, Huppert's countess character returns to life in a scarlet red funeral barge sailing into in the Seegrotte, an underground Viennese lake popular with tourists.

From Barron's Feb. 18, 2026

The dowager countess haunts the film, Fellowes says.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 5, 2025

Seven years on, the countess remains optimistic about Meghan's progress.

From BBC Apr. 6, 2025

At one point, the German countess emerged from the midst of the gentlemen and before I had had a chance to serve her, began helping herself to some port from my tray.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro

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

Marquises and countesses pose in faux-rustic settings, their gray curly hair gathered into rat tails.

From The Guardian Feb. 12, 2016

American elements in modern London Society, 435; countesses and duchesses, 435; embassies and ministers—Washington Irving and Motley, 435; Russell Lowell and Bayard, 436; ladies, their education in Paris, 436; restlessness a characteristic feature of, 436.

From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet) Escott




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