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Meanings of peeress in English

Portuguese
lady
Catalan
aristòcrata

A woman of the peerage in Britain.

      lady
      Usage of peeress in English
      1
      The door gently opened-themeek face of the new peeress appeared.
      Ernest Maltravers — Volume 08
      2
      As soon as the train started the peeress began to cry.
      The Lion's Share
      3
      I never promised you that I would make you a peeress.
      Nobody's Man
      4
      He might if she was a peeress in her own right!
      Mike Fletcher: A Novel
      5
      But it is much to be a wife; and more to be a peeress.
      The Eustace Diamonds
      6
      Then the potential peeress got up and left the room.
      The Nebuly Coat
      7
      The proposal of the venerable peeress was at first very naturally gratifying to Darrell.
      What Will He Do with It? — Volume 09
      8
      She might take her fortune to London and become a peeress of the realm.
      The Sisters-In-Law: A Novel of Our Time
      9
      As the light travelled each peeress shone like a rainbow.
      Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1
      10
      La Palferine, seeing her, said, 'You have made a peeress of yourself I know.
      A Prince of Bohemia
      11
      Miss Carolina Wilhelmina Amelia Skeggs is good; Lady Blarney is not the overdressed and overacting peeress.
      Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 332, June, 1843
      12
      She was a peeress till there should be a peer; the peer should be her husband.
      The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
      13
      She looks like a peeress, and bears her honours grandly; but they will never harden her.
      He Knew He Was Right
      14
      They knew that Lady Southminster was the youngest English peeress because she had told them so.
      The Lion's Share
      15
      You would have been a peeress of England.
      Verner's Pride
      16
      She's a peeress; I have said it!
      The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 / Vo...
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      Portuguese
      lady
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