peeress

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A number of Private Member's Bills followed, as did motions set down by Lord Astor, the husband of Nancy Astor - the first woman MP - but all failed to get peeresses into the Lords.

From BBC

The new London régime exactly suits the future peeresses of the old country when they are fresh from New York.

From Project Gutenberg

When the cavalcade stops there is a stir among the peeresses, for they cannot see round the corner, and are much disgusted by the fact.

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"Madam, do you know that you are a peeress of the realm?" he added pompously.

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My father set my sister up in business as a British peeress and bought her her husband and settled a whacking dower on her.

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