vicomten.
/ˈviːkɒmt/ A viscount. Similarly vicomtesse n. /vikɔ̃tɛs/ a viscountess.
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c1786 T. Blaikie Diary Sc. Gardener (1931) 204 The Vicomtesse de Pons..had a Park to Make.
1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre I. xv. 286 I knew him for a young roué of a vicomte—a brainless and vicious youth.
1889 C. M. Yonge Reputed Changeling II. xxi. 71 The mother..was too proud of him to miss any opportunity of exhibiting him to an experienced mother and grandmother like the vicomtesse.
1928 C. A. Nicholson Hell & Duchess v. 94 You can scarcely blame the vicomte for suggesting a change.
1968 ‘R. Amberley’ Incitement to Murder iii. 77 His uncle and aunt will be staying in the vicomte's house.
1980 C. Watson Bishop in Back Seat (1981) xxviii. 157 There was a sometime film producer,..a French count,..a vicomtesse who wrote best-sellers.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2020).
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