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baroness definition

bar·on·ess (-is)

noun

  1. a baron's wife, widow, or (in some European countries) daughter
  2. a woman with a barony in her own right

Etymology: ME & OFr baronesse

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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