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Definition of Countess
1. Noun. Female equivalent of a count or earl.
Definition of Countess
1. n. The wife of an earl in the British peerage, or of a count in the Continental nobility; also, a lady possessed of the same dignity in her own right. See the Note under Count.
Definition of Countess
1. Noun. The wife of a count or earl, or the title used by a women who holds the title in her own right. ¹
2. Noun. The title used by a female who holds an earldom in her own right. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Countess
1. a noblewoman [n -ES] - See also: noblewoman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Countess
Literary usage of Countess
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Representative American Plays by Arthur Hobson Quinn (1917)
"countess. Do you love everyone? Jo. No, I won't go so far as that—But I think
... countess. I rallier like Cyril! The trouble is he 's not married and there ..."
2. Beethoven's Letters: A Critical Edition : with Explanatory Notes by Ludwig van Beethoven, Alfred Christlieb Kalischer, John South Shedlock (1909)
"I leave it entirely to you to arrange with my servant, only the countess Erdody
must not exercise ... The relationship between countess Erdody, nee countess ..."
3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1852)
"CAN EBOR. of the countess in his Scotch tours. In that of 1769 (which somewhat
strangely follows the one of 1772), he gives at'p. 87. time engraving spoken ..."
4. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1895)
"He j soon attracted the notice of the countess of ; Huntingdon, ... Through the
influence of the countess of Moira, Lady Huntingdon's eldest daughter, ..."
5. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1904)
"said countess Marya, returning a few minutes later. ' Now our Natasha is herself
again. You should have seen her delight, and what a scolding he came in for ..."
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