Synonyms for peeress

Grammar : Noun

Spell : peer-is

Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɪər ɪs

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Définition of peeress

As in baroness : noun noblewoman
As in noblewoman : noun woman of noble birth

Example sentences :

In the first place, Herbert, I was never intended by nature to be a peeress.
Extract from : « The Coryston Family » by Mrs. Humphry Ward

She knows that you are a peer of England, and that she is a peeress.
Extract from : « Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) » by Charles James Lever

An English peeress is a princess, and must dispense her wealth generously.
Extract from : « Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) » by Charles James Lever

To be the rival of a peeress; that peeress a duchess; that duchess the lady of the viceroy!
Extract from : « Jack Hinton » by Charles James Lever

I would rather he were an earl, and I a peeress in his right.
Extract from : « The Old Countess; or, The Two Proposals » by Ann S. Stephens

If the peeress as a wife has no rights, what is the state of the cotter's wife?
Extract from : « Lady Byron Vindicated » by Harriet Beecher Stowe

And it will be very pleasant to Miss Palmer to be an English peeress.
Extract from : « The Relentless City » by Edward Frederic Benson

Better have been admired as a governess than shunned as a peeress, which is what she will be.
Extract from : « The Hand of Ethelberta » by Thomas Hardy

"If I were a peeress, I would have them," she declared rather wistfully.
Extract from : « The Great Miss Driver » by Anthony Hope

I know no lady, no peeress in England, who is half so beautiful, so clever as you—not one.
Extract from : « A Mad Love » by Bertha M. Clay

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