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  • noun Plural form of contessa.

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Examples

  • Later I took up with rather more refined Italians who were slumming amongst us bright, broke young things - baronets and contessas who produced less vulgar but no less frugal risotti under stark cooking conditions.

    Frugal Food - Mark Bittman Wants to Know 2008

  • Later I took up with rather more refined Italians who were slumming amongst us bright, broke young things - baronets and contessas who produced less vulgar but no less frugal risotti under stark cooking conditions.

    Dove's Eye View: 2008

  • The slick ad executives, their bouffant wives, and the downtown barefoot contessas of AMC's acclaimed series Mad Men — they were too submersed inside their murky fishbowls of moody regrets and countless cigarettes to sense what was coming, what was waiting on the horizon to tornado into their pants and send their inhibitions packing.

    A Twist in Time Wolcott, James 2007

  • As for the contessas and marchesas who wrote, eagerly promising their "dearest Constance" that they would be kind to her relations, they were many; and when Ewen

    Lady Connie Humphry Ward 1885

  • wheat dinner rolls, banana layer cake, applesauce cake, choc. zucchini cake lemon loaf( im using barefoot contessas), banana loaf(ive tried so many, do you have a fabulous one?)

    I need your help...... Randi 2005

  • wheat dinner rolls, banana layer cake, applesauce cake, choc. zucchini cake lemon loaf( im using barefoot contessas), banana loaf(ive tried so many, do you have a fabulous one?)

    Archive 2005-08-01 Randi 2005

  • The pot and spoon could just help them to focus and get there mind off there troubles and just maybe my son and his can have a fighting chance. as an aside, wife and i create more problems than we can solve [just like US]; nevertheless, we solve lotsof them. but we do often make mountains out of molehills and molehills out of mountains. just like world plutos - the modern feudal lords, barons, counts, earls, boyars, contessas, dames - who made afgh'n look like a mountain instead a molehill; while making mollhill out of global warming / warfare. as editors tell me in a 'dignified' way for a dignitary: that's democracy, mister! so it may be OK to fry in the sun democratically. tnx

    Dissident Voice 2009

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