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viscountess|ˈvaɪkaʊntɪs|
[See viscount and -ess. So F. vicomtesse, It. viscontessa, Sp. vizcondesa, Pg. viscondessa.]
1. The wife of a viscount; a peeress of the fourth order of nobility.
1475Rolls of Parlt. VI. 134/1 Margaret Viscountesse Lisle, wyfe of the said Henry Bodrugan, which is a grete estate of this Reame. 1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. lxi. 80 b/2 The erle then sent letters..desyrynge the kynge to suffre his cosyn the vycountes to be in peas. 1529Act 21 Hen. VIII, c. 13. §17 Any Chapeleyne of any Duches Marques Countesse Vyscountesse or Baronesse. 1578Chr. Prayers in Priv. Prayers (1851) 521 The Viscountess. Viscountesses I do not spare; For of them I have no care. 1643Docq. Lett. Pat. at Oxf. (1837) 377 A Lease made..to the said Viscountesse of parcell of the lands. 1689Lond. Gaz. No. 2444/1 A Pursuivant, a Vicountess, Vicounts. 1728Chambers Cycl. s.v. Vicount, A Viscountess may have her Gown bore up by a Woman, out of the Presence of her Superiors; and in their Presence by a Man. 1753Gray Long Story 134 Why, what can the Viscountess mean? 1805in A. Duncan Nelson (1806) 333 His relict Lady Viscountess Nelson. 1876T. Hardy Ethelberta (1890) 317 Rather disappointed at this aspect of a viscountess's life. 1890Froude Ld. Beaconsfield xiv. 211 Mrs. Disraeli became Viscountess Beaconsfield.
2. A particular size of slate.
1878D. C. Davies Slate & Slate Quarrying 136 Princesses..Duchesses..Marchionesses..Countesses..Viscountesses 18 × 9..Ladies. |