a wedding invitation eagerly sought by every peer and peeress in the realm
1688
dame, gentlewoman, lady, milady, noblewoman;
baroness, countess, duchess, marchesa, marchioness, marquise, princess, queen, viscountess;
: a woman who is a member of the British nobility
: the wife or widow of a peer (sense 2)
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