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Countesses
Countess Count"ess (kount"?s), n.; pl. Countesses (-?s). [F. comtesse. See Count a nobleman.] The wife of an earl in the British peerage, or of a count in the Continental nobility; also, a lady possessed of the same dignity in her own right. See the Note under Count.

Meaning of Countesse from wikipedia

- to the said Henry... Also the said Countesse made chevisancez of greate somes of Money... and also the said Countesse conspired, consedered, and imagyned...
- The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, also known simply as the Arcadia, is a long prose pastoral romance by Sir Philip Sidney written towards the end of...
- Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, Comtesse de La Fayette (baptized 18 March 1634 – 25 May 1693), better known as Madame de La Fayette, was a French...
- 1586, and was dedicated "To the most beautiful and vertuous Ladie, the Countesse of Es****", Frances Walsingham, Sidney's widow. Astrophel was published...
- brother's Arcadia, which he claimed to have written in her presence as The Countesse of Pembroke's Arcadia. Sidney's closet drama Antonius is a translation...
- paraphrase of Metamorphoses I in Abraham France, The third part of the Countesse of Pembrokes Yuychurch (London, 1592), sig. A2v." Demogorgon was taken...
- ladies gentlewoman) at Dr Daylies house as his mistress, calls hir his Countesse, hyres Captain Whitlocke, with monie and cast suites, to brave his Countess...
- Parliamentorum A.D. 1483 1 Richard III:An act for the Attaynder of Margaret Countesse of Richmond". Pronay and J. Cox, eds., The Crowland Chronicle Continuations...
- the last Duke of Buckingham: Her mother was Ursula, Daughter to the Countesse of Salisbury, the only Daughter to George, Duke of Clarence, Brother to...
- JSTOR 449855. Davis, Joel B. (March 29, 2011). Davis, Joel B. (ed.). The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia and the Invention of English Literature. Palgrave...