Crossword clues for countesses
countesses
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.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of countess English)
Usage examples of "countesses".
He winked at George, then announced, “I shall await the arrival of the earl and the countesses with you, uncle.
He looked across the dining table at the Countesses of Blackmore and jabbed his fork playfully into the air.
He knew who they were: the aristocrats, the princes and dukes and countesses and such, of that lovely green place.
Like all the characters in this book, the Counts and Countesses of Drachenstein are wholly fictitious and bear no resemblance to any persons living or dead.
While I couldn't have recited the names of _all_ the women I had known, I was pretty clear that there weren't any foreign countesses that had slipped my mind.
There were princesses, countesses, actresses, and the daughter of the Munich town-crier, among others, and Lola looking unusually nun-like in a black dress and wearing a come-to-Jesus expression.