noun
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the wife or widow of a peer
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a woman holding the rank of a peer in her own right
Gender
See -ess.
Etymology
Origin of peeress
Example Sentences
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However, on her appointment as minister for Europe, she became a peeress in her own right.
From BBC • Dec. 3, 2023
Which explains how the Mayfair peeress who asked me for cocktails one day has a villa packed with Vieux Paris silver-plate and Louis XVI armchairs covered in needlepoint scenes from La Fontaine’s “Fables.”
From New York Times • May 20, 2011
Thatcher, who felt that Soames had ineptly handled a three-week civil servant strike, replaced him with Baroness Young, a life peeress and a personal friend, who becomes the first woman to hold the job.
From Time Magazine Archive
Deft deflater ... of pedantic pomposity, peerless peeress among her presidential peers, who knits serenely as the tumbrels cart off many a less resilient colleague from academic heights .
From Time Magazine Archive
I dare say, as my second season drew near its close, he was disappointed that I was not already a peeress.
From Willing to Die by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
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