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noblewoman
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Each is published by name and dedicated to a noblewoman . ▪ I realise the Lady Yolande is a noblewoman and that you were instrumental in arranging her marriage to the late King. ▪ She looked like a provincial noblewoman . ▪ Twelfth-century ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Noblewoman \No"ble*wom`an\, n.; pl. Noblewomen . A female of noble rank; a peeress.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A woman having a noble rank, especially one belonging to the peerage; a Lady
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a woman of the peerage in Britain [syn: Lady , peeress ] [ant: Lord , Lord ]
Usage examples of noblewoman.
And all that time the noblemen and noblewomen sat here comfortably, sipping their wine and boggle, worrying more about fine clothes than a poor old widow who was about to be executed by the terrible powries in Caer Tinella, fighting with their quiet insults whispered behind backs rather than with sword and honest wit.
Even, and especially, Sapientia, dressed in all the finery appropriate to a noblewoman, looked as insignificant as a goldfinch perched next to a mighty dragon.
I know that George quit us to take service with a foreign noblewoman, one in whom he has more than a professional interest, meaning that he will serve her with great fidelity.
Her father was off to the side, talking animatedly with Anlaf and Archbishop Wulfstan, along with the knights who husbanded the visiting noblewomen.
When Ilna had last glanced at Merota, the girl was amidships with Mistress Kaline, the impoverished noblewoman who acted as her governess.
Ilna had last glanced at Merota, the girl was amidships with Mistress Kaline, the impoverished noblewoman who acted as her governess.
But I think, if you were to count the barren women you have heard of, you would find that they are mostly pale and fragile and vaporish noblewomen.
The Fox is bound to barter him for an allya daughter of the high march of Yiss, perhaps, or a rich Darthacan noblewoman, and Chalion will have lost its chance!
He heard no sound as he mounted the steps and stood in a reception line composed of himself, his mother, two royal cousins and the Senior Steward, all grave courtesy without, all intense embarrassment within as the noblewomen ofSaxe-Baden passed before him, simpering and smirking.
He allows Steno to love him because she is diabolically pretty, notwithstanding her forty years, and then she is, in spite of all, a real noblewoman, which flattered him.
When her husband died she declared remarriage unbefitting a Roman noblewoman, and refused, among other suitors, Ptolemy Euergetes Gross-belly of Egypt.
No doubt they thought they saw two noblewomen arguing in the graying evening and wanted to attract no part of that anger on themselves.
His wife was very different from the highflyers or pretentious noblewomen he usually escorted, and Madame DuBay had responded accordingly.
Then the anonymous, fatuous clump of noblewomen and servants led her through the thin dawn light to Kenilworth Chapel, where Griffith waited with the priest on one hand and King Henry on the other.
Her looks came from her mother, a Lyonnaise noblewoman whose family fortune had been wiped out when the Revolution swept her country.