Peeress

Definition and stakes

Portrait of Mrs. Alec-Tweedie Mrs. Alec-Tweedie,  Thirteen Years of a Busy Woman's Life

“ Two to three hours’ standing for women not accustomed to it is rather trying, especially when the space is so crowded that it is hardly possible to breathe. Peeresses married to commoners were there; peeresses by marriage whose fathers-in-law are still living; sons who one day will succeed noble fathers in the House of Lords ”
Source: Gutenberg

Il Novellino: The hundred old tales (1925)

“ Now it happened that the woman climbed up the pear-tree to her friend, who was awaiting her, and they were very happy together, and the pear-tree shook with their weight, and the pears fell down on top of the husband.
Then the husband said: what are you doing, woman, you are knocking all the pears down? And the woman replied: I wanted the pears off a certain branch, and only so could I get them. [133]
Now you must know that the Lord God and Saint Peter seeing this happening, Saint Peter said to the Lord God: do you not see the trick that woman is playing on her husband?
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Source: Gutenberg

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