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- noun A
French noblewoman having a rank equivalent to aviscountess
Etymologies
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Examples
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In the Maywald photo, the vicomtesse wears a billowing Schiaparelli ball gown.
The Things Yves Loved Collins, Amy Fine 2009
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“Madame la vicomtesse,” said the abbe, who entered first into the little salon, “Monsieur le docteur Minoret was not willing that you should have the trouble of coming to him —”
Ursula 2006
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When the vicomtesse drifted across a drawing room she still swayed in the island way that was all grace and sensuality.
THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005
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When the vicomtesse drifted across a drawing room she still swayed in the island way that was all grace and sensuality.
THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005
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I left again, to sail to Martinique, and there had long suppers with the baroness Tascher and her niece the enticing vicomtesse de Beauharnais, who had been abandoned by her husband and as “Josephine” would marry Napoleon and become empress of France.
THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005
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In Martinique, Baroness Tascher had adopted me, and at her house I first met her niece the vicomtesse Rose de Beauharnais.
THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005
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In Martinique, Baroness Tascher had adopted me, and at her house I first met her niece the vicomtesse Rose de Beauharnais.
THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005
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When the vicomtesse drifted across a drawing room she still swayed in the island way that was all grace and sensuality.
THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005
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I left again, to sail to Martinique, and there had long suppers with the baroness Tascher and her niece the enticing vicomtesse de Beauharnais, who had been abandoned by her husband and as “Josephine” would marry Napoleon and become empress of France.
THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005
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I left again, to sail to Martinique, and there had long suppers with the baroness Tascher and her niece the enticing vicomtesse de Beauharnais, who had been abandoned by her husband and as “Josephine” would marry Napoleon and become empress of France.
THE DIAMOND JULIE BAUMGOLD 2005
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