peeress

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A noblewoman married to a peer.
    — But there were more than a score of peers there beside, with their peeresses in tall feathers, diamonds, and monstrous hoops.
  2. A woman holding a noble title in her own right.
    — [I]t is obvious that the Californian heiress is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a British peeress.

词形变化

peeresses plural

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic *pūrijan
Old English *pȳran
Middle English peren
English peer
Late Latin -issader.
Old French -essebor.
Middle English -esse
English -ess
English peeress
From peer + -ess.
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