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peeress
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun peeress has 1 sense
- peeress(n = noun.person) lady, noblewoman - a woman of the peerage in Britain; Array is a member of baronage, peerage
has particulars: baroness, countess, duchess, lady-in-waiting, marchioness, marquise, milady, borgia, duchess of ferrara, lucrezia borgia, godiva, lady godiva, amy lyon, hamilton, lady emma hamilton
is a kind of female aristocrat
CIDE DICTIONARY
peeress, n.
The wife of a peer; a woman ennobled in her own right, or by right of marriage. [1913 Webster]
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