Definition of viscount
: a member of the peerage in Great Britain ranking below an earl and above a baron
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The feeding, for instance, takes place in a French chateau ruled by a viscount for hundreds of years.
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What Franz Kafka is to Prague, local son Italo Calvino has become to Torino, so this traveler’s bar is lavishly upholstered with the gnomic witticisms of this Oulipo literateur: viscounts mathematically carved in half, dropouts who live up in trees.
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Origin and Etymology of viscount
Middle English viscounte sheriff, viscount, from Anglo-French visquens, visconte, from Medieval Latin vicecomit-, vicecomes, from Late Latin vice- vice- + comit-, comes count — more at count
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: a man who is a member of the British nobility and who ranks below an earl and above a baron
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: a British nobleman ranking below an earl and above a baron
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