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peeress::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | lady, noblewoman |
| Type of | female aristocrat |
| Has types | lady-in-waiting, baroness, countess, duchess, marchioness, marquise, milady |
Examples of peeress
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This biography of a peer, peeress or noble of the United Kingdom, or one or more of its constituent countries, is a stub.
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A member of the Royal Family uses a royal coronet instead of the coronet he or she would use as a peer or peeress.
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As his wife was created a life peeress, the Hailshams are one of the few couples to both hold noble titles in their own right.
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Lady Uddin, a Labour peeress from east London, admits that loyalty to her party and credibility among ordinary Muslims have become harder to combine.
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The daughters of a Duke or a Marquis are given that courtesy however, but still without a place in the system of precedence, unless they are a substantive peeress in their own right.
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Following her divorce from Charles, Duke of Rothesay, she lost the style HRH and assumed the style of a divorced peeress, that is, her personal name immediately followed by her title.
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The place of a peer in the order for gentlemen is taken by his wife in the order for ladies, except that a Dowager peeress of a particular title precedes the present holder of the same title.
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- Lady: a woman of the peerage in Britain
- The Peerage is a system of titles in the United Kingdom, which represents the upper ranks of British nobility and is part of the British honours system. The term is used both collectively to refer to the entire body of titles, and individually to refer to a specific title. ...
- 1) in Great Britain, a duchess, marchioness, countess, viscountess or baroness in her own right, enjoying the rights and prerogatives of a peer (sense 1). 2) the wife of a British peer.
