What is "duchesses"

Usage examples of "duchesses".

The slightly humbler but still grand chairs of the second dais would be for the dukes and duchesses of the Six Duchies who had gathered to witness their prince’s betrothal.

After that, others moved to join them on the dance floor, the dukes and duchesses of the Six Duchies and our Outislander guests.

In the back of the audience chamber were seated the dukes and duchesses of the Six Duchies, or those representing them at court.

Several of her dukes and duchesses came to their feet, and she who represented Beams set a hand to her sword.

The Bingtown delegation was very visible within Buckkeep Castle, assiduously courting the individual dukes and duchesses with gifts and attentions of every kind.

There was a bit less ceremony as the dukes and duchesses entered this time.

Eyes flickered as dukes and duchesses silently conferred with one another, faces set in stillness, mouths flat.

Not only was each duchy to prevent local officials from executing prisoners, but dukes and duchesses must review individually every such execution.

Fortunate too that the Prince’s dukes and duchesses had already convened for Harvest Fest, for it would have caused a greater furor if the Prince’s haste to wed had caused one of his high nobles to miss the ceremony.

She had wished to shew the Duchesses that she was better than they, by saying and doing all the things that they dared not say or do.

Certain women who did not hold any specially exalted rank in their native provinces but, brilliantly married, rich, good-looking, beloved of Duchesses, were for Paris, where people are never very well up in who one's 'father and mother' ,were, an excellent and exclusive piece of 'imported goods.

You will see nobody there who is not excessively proper andintensely boring, duchesses bearing titles which one thought were extinctyears ago and which they have revived for the occasion, all the Ambas­-sadors, heaps of Coburgs, foreign royalties, but you mustn't hope for theghost of a Stermaria.

If you will save me from the ice storm outside, I will save you from the lecherous duchesses inside.

Nickel duchesses always played the cheap slot machines—nickels and dimes in the old days, now quarters—never the dollar or five-dollar slots.

With that attitude plus a few money-management skills, they were able to hang on longer than most slot players who plunged at the dollar machines after getting nowhere with quarters, and because of their patience and perseverance, the duchesses won more jackpots than did the tide of tourists that ebbed and flowed around them.