aristocratess
aristocratess noun: a female aristocrat.
Noun
aristocratess (plural aristocratesses)
- A female aristocrat.
- There is first the would-be aristocratess stepping from her carriage, and carefully refraining from looking around her, dressed in the richest of silks, and the most delicate of laces:—showing in striking contrast with the man who rudely brushes past her, regardless of her pretty displeasure at...1834, Henry F[othergill] Chorley, “The Streets.—No. I.—Characters.”, in Sketches of a Sea Port Town, volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], pages 4–5
- We can, however, speak well of some of the papers—‘The Haunted Mind,’ and ‘Children, what are they?’ are both good of their kind—and Miss Leslie’s ‘Reading Parties,’ is a pleasant caricature;—if it be not a caricature, why there are haughtier aristocratesses in America than in the “Old Country,”...1834 October 25, The Athenæum: Journal of English and Foreign Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts, number 365, London: […] J. Francis, page 782, column 1
Examples of aristocratess in a sentence
- McKenzie the runaway aristocratess of Montreal, goes home, to get a divorce and marry her dear Fredrick[…]1876 February 4, “News by Telegraph: Condensed Summary of Telegraphic Reports in the Daily Papers”, in The Emporia News, volume 19, number...
- It is a wise aristocratess that knows her own Keith.1906, “Poor Richard’s Own”, in The Utonian, page Two Hundred Forty-seven:
- Rose Lewis, a daughter of the old regime, an aristocratess of the aristocrats, yet sweet, gentle, clinging—ah! that had been hard!1920 February, John Cline, “The Gleam”, in The Trinity Archive, volume XXXII, number 4, Trinity College, Durham, N.C., page 245:
- The mildly sardonic original strands on a desert island a yachting party including a young British aristocratess and the family butler, whom the emergency brings out as a man to tie to.1974, J[oseph] C[hamberlain] Furnas, Great Times: An Informal Social History of the United States, 1914-1929, New York, N.Y.: G. P....
Forms of aristocratess
| plural | aristocratesses |
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Origin of aristocratess
From aristocrat + -ess.
Questions about aristocratess
- What does aristocratess mean?
- Aristocratess means a female aristocrat.
- How do you use aristocratess in a sentence?
- McKenzie the runaway aristocratess of Montreal, goes home, to get a divorce and marry her dear Fredrick[…]
- What part of speech is aristocratess?
- Aristocratess is a noun.
- What is the plural of aristocratess?
- The plural of aristocratess is aristocratesses.
Words near aristocratess in the dictionary
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