baronessa

Noun

baronessa (plural baronessas)

1. An Italian baroness.
   • Professor Hartt recalled that, at one of what Berenson liked to call his Sunday afternoon “tea fights,” he was surrounded by contessas, baronessas, and principessas in true Don Giovanni style.1979, Meryle Secrest, Being Bernard Berenson: A Biography, New York, N.Y.: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →ISBN, page 391
   • By five o’clock, contessas, baronessas, ministers, ambassadors, fashionistas, and local goddesses of Cinecittà began streaming across the huge piazza in front of the Farnese.1998, Manuela Hoelterhoff, Cinderella & Company: Backstage at the Opera with Cecilia Bartoli, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 243