viscount

Example Sentences

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Ms. Charlot, a New York native who died at her home in Tepoztlán, Mexico, on Sunday at 101, had been a Hollywood singer before her marriage in the mid-1940s to a viscount, or British nobleman.

From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2024

Former lovers, a marquise and a viscount, pass the time in decadent games of destruction in pre-revolutionary France.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2019

Queue up these tunes, and your pup will be able to wait out storms with the refinement and sophistication of a forlorn viscount peering out his estate’s rainy window.

From Slate • May 16, 2019

Imagine the interest once all the old private art collections are opened to the public, and an actual viscount can tell you how his great-great-grandad won that Rembrandt in a game of cards.

From The Guardian • May 10, 2019

“Who cares if a Modegan viscount outranks a Vintish spara-thain?”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss