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

With due appreciation to the Queen, Nancy Astor said: "I hope they will create me a lifetime peeress!"

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

To be sure, it was not exactly the moment to persuade Davis to expatriate himself when his prospects at home began to brighten, and he saw his daughter a peeress.

From Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Lever, Charles James