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duchesshood

noun

Etymology

From duchess + -hood.

  1. derived from duchesse
  2. inherited from duchesse
  3. suffixed as duchesshood — “duchess + hood”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being a duchess.

    • Our Lady’s, rustic-latticed!—made her wife. / War snatched the secret suitor: whispers base / Beat down the lilied maid. Back from the strife / Came Duke: her Duchesshood cut sneering with a knife.
    • At this time the Earl of Bristol had died, and her husband had succeeded to the title so that, as Horace Walpole put it, her Countesshood saved her Duchesshood from being burnt in the hands.
    • “Your brother is a cold-hearted tyrant, and his wife is a snob. If she weren’t, she wouldn’t hang on to her duchesshood after marrying again. It would be good enough for me to call myself Lady Northmorland, and I hope I shall some day.”

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA