peeress

Example Sentences

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However, on her appointment as minister for Europe, she became a peeress in her own right.

From BBC • Dec. 3, 2023

Which explains how the Mayfair peeress who asked me for cocktails one day has a villa packed with Vieux Paris silver-plate and Louis XVI armchairs covered in needlepoint scenes from La Fontaine’s “Fables.”

From New York Times • May 20, 2011

Deft deflater ... of pedantic pomposity, peerless peeress among her presidential peers, who knits serenely as the tumbrels cart off many a less resilient colleague from academic heights .

From Time Magazine Archive

If Lady Stanwick had been a peeress in her own right, which is possible, she could not have had a brother.

From Time Magazine Archive

I dare say, as my second season drew near its close, he was disappointed that I was not already a peeress.

From Willing to Die by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan