Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Countesses"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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}.
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