countess

IPA: kˈaʊntʌs

The wife of a count or earl.
A woman holding the rank of count or earl in her own right; a female holder of an earldom.
Alternative letter-case form of countess [The wife of a count or earl.]

Examples of "countess" in Sentences

Contessa is a title countess and so I saw her first as a titled adult, then I read that she's been adopted.
Chertkov warns the innocent Valentin that the countess is dangerous to their mission and instructs him to keep detailed reports.
Christianity is a spiritual-semantic meme that has evolved in countess fascinating ways, and has been exploited by a plethora of power structures.
An African American Jewish woman educated by a countess from the age of seven, for at least a decade this “Dark Lady of the Sonnets” was mistress to the man in charge of the English Theater.
Further, the title of countess is legally bestowed if a female is the sole heir, which gives Lillian Boudine the title of Countess of Ashwood and all the responsibilities and entitlements that entails.
If a certain American countess had not patronized her; if certain lorgnettes (implements of torture used by said son of Satan) had not been leveled in her direction; if certain fans had not been suggestively spread between pairs of feminine heads, -- Nora would have been as harmless as a playful kitten.
What was more, my lord's coachman caught it up, and he called her countess, and he had a quarrel about it with the footman Kendall; and the day after a dreadful affair between them in the mews, home drives madam, and Kendall is to go up to her, and down the poor man comes, and not a word to be got out of him, but as if he had seen a ghost.