peeresses

noun

plural of peeress
as in ladies
a woman of high birth or social position a wedding invitation eagerly sought by every peer and peeress in the realm

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  1. ladies
  2. queens
  3. matrons
Noun
  • All is well behind them the following morning, as trials for new additions to the team kicked off with many interested ladies attending the tryouts.
    — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 19 Aug. 2026
  • That is why Amanda is a true star and the rest of these ladies are just projections in a third-rate planetarium.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of ladies
Noun
  • With guest judge Brooke Shields in the house, the queens played the celebrity-impersonation competition with a twist.
    — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 16 Aug. 2026
  • Clean water and advanced medicine, for example, are now commonplace across much of the developed world despite once being a luxury even kings and queens couldn’t reliably access.
    — Preston Fore, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of queens
Noun
  • There was also a shift toward elaborate descriptions of what society matrons wore to events, and again, women were believed to be more able to provide these verbal illustrations.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 Mar. 2026
Definition of matrons
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