duchess
IPA: dˈʌtʃʌs
noun
- The wife or widow of a duke.
- The female ruler of a duchy.
- A village in Alberta, Canada.
verb
- (Australia, informal) to court or curry favour for political or business advantage; to flatter obsequiously.
Advertisement
Examples of "duchess" in Sentences
- The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox.
- Talleyrand and the duchess of Dino.
- The Duchess is shocked and jealous.
- Castle of the Valley of the Duchess.
- That's just an abbreviation of duchess.
- Another was his elegy on the death of the Duchess of Frias.
- The last surviving child of the Duke and Duchess of Bouillon.
- Albert is the eighth grandchild for the Duke and Duchess of Kent.
- The church has a choir that is under the patronage of The Duchess of Kent.
- The Duchess of Connaught died of influenza and bronchitis at Clarence House.