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

The son's wife, Hsiao Li, who served with Red-sympathizing Michael in Mao Tse-tung's guerrilla forces in 1941-45, is the first Chinese woman ever to become a British peeress.

From Time Magazine Archive

Every house on the street is the property of a peer or peeress.

From Time Magazine Archive

Is it the aged mother's pride that her sons are all unstained in honour, and her daughters safe in happy homes? or does she boast that one is a priest, and another a peeress?

From How to Observe Morals and Manners by Martineau, Harriet