comtesse

plural comtesses

1. A French countess.

   The king is impatient to see the comtesse, and I have promised that she will sup with him to-morrow evening in my apartment at Versailles.

   1830, Autobiography: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever Published, Written by the Parties Themselves. […], volume XXIX (Madame du Barri), London: Whittaker, Treacher, and Arnot, […], pages 81–82

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   ‘Louise Victoria is a comtesse?’ murmured the major. […] You’ll agree, I think, Madame Dupont, that some young ladies are to be cherished, whether they’re comtesses or not?

   1982, Mary Jane Staples, Nurse Anna’s War, Corgi Books, published 2011, →ISBN, page 143

   “That is not fitting speech for a comtesse, not to mention highly unfashionable language for a young lady to use in mixed company.” […] “You have known many comtesses?” she asked, lowering her sword, sensing the threat from Gareth had passed . . . at least for now.

   2009, Annaliese Evans, Night’s Rose, Tor Books, →ISBN, pages 18–19

plural Comtesses

1. A title for a French countess