countess
IPA: kˈaʊntʌs
noun
- 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.]
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Examples of "countess" in Sentences
- The countess eventually arrives as well.
- In 1896, the earl and countess separated.
- The countess accuses Sonya of ingratitude.
- As for the blood countess, that's for Giano.
- The Countess is the mistress of Milos Columbo.
- It is smoething similar to countess or duchess.
- She takes on the persona of an unearthly Vampire Countess.
- The last words are the incantation that resurrects the countess.
- The Countess de Boigne met her in Genoa and found her untidy and vulgar.
- They go offstage together, where the Countess dodges him, hiding in the dark.
- 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.
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