Crossword clues for countess
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Countess \Count"ess\ (kount"?s), n.; pl. Countesses (-?s). [F. comtesse. See Count a nobleman.] 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-12c., adopted in Anglo-French for "the wife of an earl," from Medieval Latin cometissa, fem. of Latin comes "count" (see count (n.)).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The wife of a count or earl. 2 The title used by a female who holds an earldom in her own right.
WordNet
n. female equivalent of a count or earl
Wikipedia
Countess is a black metal band from the Netherlands], formed in 1992. They have released more than a dozen full-length CDs, and are considered one of the most eminent Dutch black metal bands. After years of being a solo project as of 2014 they are a band again and play live.
Countess is the female equivalent of the title Count, or in Britain of the title Earl.
Countess or The Countess may also refer to:
- Countess (band), a black metal band
- Countess (novel), a novel by Josephine Edgar
- Countess (popular argot), a female accountant
- The Countess, an opera by Stanisław Moniuszko
- The Countess (film), a 2009 film about Elizabeth Báthory
- The Countess (American Horror Story), an American Horror Story: Hotel character
- The Countess (play), 1999 play
Countess sequel to Duchess, is a historical romance novel by Josephine Edgar, published in 1978 by Macdonald & J. The novel won the 1979's Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
Usage examples of "countess".
Franz could not forbear breaking in upon the apparently interesting conversation passing between the countess and Albert, to inquire of the former if she knew who was the fair Albanian opposite, since beauty such as hers was well worthy of being observed by either sex.
Dalip Amrit, the tactful one-time schoolmaster from Normork who was his private secretary, and bustling, hyperefficient Singobinda Mukund, the master of the household, a ruddy-faced Ni-moyan, and Countess Auranga of Bibiroon, who served as his official hostess in the absence of any consort.
Thomas More Anglesey had then been induced, somehow, to marry the embarrassed Countess and raise the two boys.
The countess answered with a smile that she was not an enigma for everybody, although she was necessarily so for most people.
The female portion of the academy, disciplined by the fashionable example of the countess and the queen to a noble grace of bearing, a flattering condescension, mount the dais, an areopagus sometimes sixty strong.
Belgian friend, coming up to him at the end of a polka, with the elderly Countess, who with her dingy lilac barege gown exchanged for a dingier lilac silk, and her sandy hair fuzzier than ever, had been dancing vigorously.
William Basswood, she found two copies of The Tattooed Countess on sale in the cigar store of one Mr.
Countess and I tasted our first triumph in her cellar, whither we conducted Sir Peter Grebe, the Crown-Prince of Monaco, Baron de Becasse, and his Majesty King Christian of Finland.
His whole story had become known in the duchy, and though it begot no feeling against him in war-time, now that Bercy was in a neutral zone of peace there was much talk of the wrongs of Guida and the Countess Chantavoine.
He drove home the truth with bare unvarnished power--the wrong to Guida, the wrong to the Countess, the wrong to the Dukedom of Bercy, to that honour which should belong to those in high estate.
It was difficult to imagine that the countess was allied with the Entonne, but why else would Bertillon have accompanied her?
Abandoning his dignity, he beat a hasty retreat lest the Countess of Bridgeport vent her considerable spleen on his ears.
In 1740 Hobart became lord-lieutenant of Norfolk and in 1746 earl of Buckinghamshire, his sister, Henrietta Howard, countess of Suffolk, being the mistress of George II.
Aunt Elizabeth Burstone, Countess of Wentford, met them in the spacious, elegant hall with a wide smile and her hands outstretched.
Spanish South American Countess was of a camelia paleness, and had almond-shaped dark eyes with brooding lashes under slender brows that met.