gräfin

gräfin noun: a German countess.

Noun

gräfin (plural gräfins)

A German countess.
- Having here little to do but viser passports and flirt with married gräfins rather fat than fair, he had applied himself to a study of prophecy.[1859], “Sinking a Sly Shaft”, in Getting On: A Tale of Modern English Life, volume I, London: James Hogg & Sons, page 267
- Mrs. Grahame was puzzled at finding that her letters of introduction, whose probable efficacy she had measured by that of the £4985 19s. 7½d., expended at 180, Belgrave Square, produced at Carlsbad a large assortment of princes and princesses, grafs and gräfins, and super-induced young Englishmen...1862, Edward Heneage Dering, chapter XII, in A Great Sensation, volume I, London: Hurst and Blackett, […], page 155

[…]old women are seeking to earn a few groschen by carrying home the purchases of buyers, and even a sprinkling of lady baronesses and gräfins, each attended by a footman,[…]1884 Christmas, Mrs. Alexander [pen name; Anne French Hector], “Mrs. Vereker’s Courier Maid”, in The Gentleman’s Annual, chapter III, page...
Emerald enclosed faith, though gräfins needed faith mostly in grafs.1995, Peter Vansittart, A Safe Conduct, Peter Owen Publishers, →ISBN, page 57:

plural	gräfins

From German Gräfin.

What does gräfin mean?: Gräfin means a German countess.
How do you use gräfin in a sentence?: […]old women are seeking to earn a few groschen by carrying home the purchases of buyers, and even a sprinkling of lady baronesses and gräfins, each attended by a footman,[…]
What part of speech is gräfin?: Gräfin is a noun.
What is the plural of gräfin?: The plural of gräfin is gräfins.

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