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peer·ess (pir′is)

noun

  1. the wife or widow of a peer
  2. a woman having the rank of peer in her own right

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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