the Duchess of Kent
Meaning of duchess in English
(Definition of duchess from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of duchess from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of duchess
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Isn't this the way you speak to a dowager duchess?
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This division was pointedly underlined in women's visits to the new duchess.
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Officially, he was never restored to his place as the duchess's secretary.
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She has grandeur and aristocracy; she looks every bit in the mode of an 18th century duchess.
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I had not any friends among the duchesses.
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The dowager duchess who lives in a mansion will pay as much as the widow who is living in a basement.
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Fortunately or unfortunately, depending on one's political perceptive, the country is not made up of duchesses.
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I was sorry that he ridiculed it on the basis of elderly duchesses.
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The wife of the miner could spend an extra £7 a year as easily as a duchess.
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These people are not dukes and duchesses; they are poor women.
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There are no duchesses on my side in politics.
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They are obsessed with high estates and duchesses.
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I hope it is not a question of training the young people of my class as servants for duchesses.
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Is it not true that we do not care whether they are duchesses or kitchenmaids?
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All the nice gentlemen on the other side, all the dukes and duchesses, would give him the cold shoulder.
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公爵夫人, 公爵夫人（こうしゃく ふじん）…
düşes…
duchesse [feminine], duchesse…
duquessa…
hertogin…
hertuginde…
hertiginnna, hertiginna…
isteri kepada duke, wanita yang sama taraf dengan duke…
die Herzogin…
hertuginne [masculine], hertuginne…
герцогиня…
герцогиня…
دوقة…
vévodkyně…
istri duke, wanita bangsawan…
ภรรยาของท่านดยุค, เจ้าฟ้าหญิง…
vợ công tước, nữ công tước…
księżna…
공작 부인, 여자 공작…
duchessa…
