Definition of Duchess

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Definition of Duchess
	Duchess The wife or widow of a duke; also, a lady who has the sovereignty of a duchy in her own right. Related Definitions: Also, Duchy, Duke, Her, Has, In, Lady, Of, Or, Own, Right, Sovereignty, The, Who, Widow, Wife

Duchess Quotations

It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink.
Horace Walpole

The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.
Gertrude Stein

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
Samuel Johnson

On one night of my debut the Prince of Wales, the Princess, and the duchess of London came to see me. They loved me for what I was and what I gave them.
Lillie Langtry

Duchess Translations

duchess in French is duc, duchesse
duchess in German is Herzogin
duchess in Italian is duchessa, duca
duchess in Norwegian is hertuginne
duchess in Spanish is duquesa
duchess in Swedish is hertiginna

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