peeress

English

Noun

peeress (plural peeresses)

1. A noblewoman married to a peer
2. A woman holding a noble title in her own right.

   • 1892, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Noble Bachelor”, in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes^[1], edition HTML, The Gutenberg Project, published 2011:

     … it is obvious that the Californian heiress is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a British peeress.