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duchesshood

duchesshood noun: the quality of being a duchess.

Noun

duchesshood (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being a duchess.
    • Our Lady’s, rustic-latticed!—made her wife. / War snatched the secret suitor: whispers base / Beat down the lilied maid. Back from the strife / Came Duke: her Duchesshood cut sneering with a knife.1894, Henry Hanby Hay, “Pride or Love”, in Sarah Tyson Rorer, editor, Household News: A Monthly Magazine for the Home Circle, page 693, column 1
    • At this time the Earl of Bristol had died, and her husband had succeeded to the title so that, as Horace Walpole put it, her Countesshood saved her Duchesshood from being burnt in the hands.1907, The Solicitors’ Journal and Weekly Reporter, volume LI, page 755, column 1
    Synonyms:
    duchessness

Examples of duchesshood in a sentence

  • If she weren’t, she wouldn’t hang on to her duchesshood after marrying again.1911, C. N. Williamson, The Golden Silence, page 19:
  • […]Wally had attained duchesshood at 11:47 a.m.1976, Ring Lardner Jr., The Lardners: My Family Remembered, Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 261:
  • He had secured scorn and rejection for her instead of exalted duchesshood!1985, Kimon S. Neophyte, Xenos, Kabelkarnimf, →ISBN, page 205:
  • She was always a staid young woman, but achieving the exalted heights of duchesshood seems to have cast her even further into stiff propriety.[…]”1998, Barbara Hazard, Wild Roses, →ISBN, page 53:

Synonyms of duchesshood

Origin of duchesshood

From duchess + -hood.

Questions about duchesshood

What does duchesshood mean?
Duchesshood means the quality of being a duchess.
How do you use duchesshood in a sentence?
If she weren’t, she wouldn’t hang on to her duchesshood after marrying again.
What part of speech is duchesshood?
Duchesshood is a noun.

Words near duchesshood in the dictionary

  1. duchesse lace
  2. duchesse laces
  3. duchesse potatoes
  4. duchessed
  5. duchesses
  6. duchesshood
  7. duchessing
  8. duchesslike
  9. duchessly
  10. duchessness
  11. duchessy

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