Peeress

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Peeress \Peer"ess\, n.
     The wife of a peer; a woman ennobled in her own right, or by
     right of marriage.
     [1913 Webster] Peerie

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  peeress
       n : a woman of the peerage in Britain [syn: {Lady}, {noblewoman}]
           [ant: {Lord}, {Lord}]

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  PEERESS. A noblewoman, the wife of a peer.