peeress

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But don't say 'British Peeress Came Back to Criticize'�because 't aint true.

From Time Magazine Archive

Peeress will chaperon girl for season in London, or would sponsor married woman.

From Time Magazine Archive

I am a Peeress of this nation—mother to one English Earl, and widow, alas, to another!

From Peveril of the Peak by Scott, Walter, Sir

This Duchess--I ain't quite sure uv 'er rank; She might uv been a Peeress.

From Digger Smith by Gye, Hal

But we all see through Mrs. Leader's schemes—she means the Educational Under-Secretaryship, when Bella Falayse goes to the Upper Saloon as a Peeress jure suo.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 62, Jan 27, 1872 by Various