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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

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

Men have reported feeling uncomfortable in this part of the building, and Highland Paranormal suspects the countess is the cause.

From BBC Oct. 29, 2024

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

The author, Vincenzo Giacchiroli, observes: "These countesses, according to what I have read, the Florentines call Dukes of May—perhaps because there they have real dukes."

From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco




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