Example Sentences

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Yesterday’s countesses lacked those freedoms and were bound to serve as propriety’s standard bearers.

From Salon • Sep. 14, 2025

He jived and twisted with Gloria Vanderbilt and a succession of foreign countesses.

From MSNBC • Nov. 15, 2017

Malloy saw his own artsy social circle in the novel’s princes and countesses.

From The New Yorker • May 5, 2017

Marquises and countesses pose in faux-rustic settings, their gray curly hair gathered into rat tails.

From The Guardian • Feb. 12, 2016

Young princes lay upon the ground with princesses and countesses, for they did not sit upon benches or seats, but costly carpets were spread about the rooms, whereon they could sit and stretch themselves comfortably.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. I. by Freytag, Gustav