(n.) The wife or widow of a duke; also, a lady who has the sovereignty of a duchy in her own right.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge stood among the graves on 4 August last year in a moving ceremony to mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of war.
(2) In a statement, a St James's Palace spokesman said: "The Duchess of Cambridge has been discharged from the King Edward VII hospital and will now head to Kensington Palace for a period of rest.
(3) After the event, McCray praised the duchess on Twitter for her passion on issues of mental health and early childhood development, saying “her warmth and passion for the cause was infectious”.
(4) But while the duchess was surrounded by obstetricians and midwives, Natalie was at home with just her husband, Peter, an architectural technician, and a doula by her side.
(5) Prince Harry and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have enlisted a rapper, a Royal Marine and a Labour spin doctor to try to push stigma about discussing mental health beyond what they believe is a “tipping point” and into public acceptability.
(6) Formerly Communications secretary to The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Henry of Wales.
(7) But lest the duchess feel overlooked, the end section of the show featured long, pale-blue bias-cut crepe dresses with more of a charity gala feel; and knee-length silk crepe dresses with black grosgrain belts seemed princess friendly.
(8) At one point, Walters speculates that “she looks the same weight as the Duchess – about 8st”; later, he disingenuously asks her to discuss “the cruel comments about being a ‘childless spinster’”, neither telling readers who made those “cruel comments” in the first place, or where.
(9) The legal action, said St James's Palace, concerned the "taking of photographs of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge whilst on holiday and the publication of these photos in breach of their privacy".
(10) But this time warp is a Seville one, and all the statues of (ecclesiastical) virgins, winged cherubs, shrines and other Catholic paraphernalia, plus portraits of the late Duchess of Alba, give it a unique spirit, as do the clientele – largely local, despite Garlochí’s international fame as the city’s most kitsch bar.
(11) The visit by the duchess, who is pregnant with her second child, had been in doubt after it was announced she had hyperemesis gravidarum .
(12) The Duchess of Cambridge is too thin, has a “bastard of a job” and was pressured into getting pregnant a second time, Germaine Greer says.
(13) Even by the standards of Chi magazine – which has in the past published paparazzi shots of the Duchess of Cambridge sunbathing topless – the tone has appalled Italians and prompted a chorus of condemnation.
(14) With a smile and a wave the Duchess of Cambridge left hospital on Thursday to the undoubted relief of her husband and also of the international news crews camped outside in the bitter cold throughout her three-night stay.
(15) St James's Palace said: "The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are very pleased to announce that the Duchess of Cambridge is expecting a baby.
(16) The Duchess of Cambridge, due to give birth in the next couple of weeks, will not suffer the indignities of, say, Mary of Modena in 1688, forced to give birth in front of an audience of 200 and still accused of a bit of business with bedpan and changeling.
(17) If you're struggling to paint a picture, she's related to the Duchess of York.
(18) That's why we buy into the notion that a £20 Zara necklace worn by the Duchess of Cambridge on a designer gown costing thousands of pounds is evidence that she is like us.
(19) There's a sense of generations passing in a haze of crisp formalities, with decades of unexpressed emotions left to accumulate, like dust on a snoozing duchess.
(20) Monkey can't help but wonder – is Burley's advice to the duchess based on personal experience?
Dukedom
Definition:
(n.) The territory of a duke.
(n.) The title or dignity of a duke.
Example Sentences:
(1) Her husband became heir to the dukedom on the death of his brother in 1944 and succeeded unexpectedly early when his father died in 1950, 14 weeks before the date on which the estates would have escaped 80% death duties.
(2) The marquess – AKA Jamie Blandford, AKA notorious, rambunctious, formerly disgraced and once nearly disinherited heir apparent to the dukedom of Marlborough – is the cheeringly gristly knot at the heart of the first episode of The Aristocrats, a sprightly new two-parter that takes a surprisingly even-handed gander at the lives of the monumentally privileged as they yah and blah around their often endangered country piles.
(3) The show, which tells the story of a minor noble who finds he's ninth in line to a dukedom and resolves to be the first, took 10 nominations, including best musical.
(4) Her son Peregrine succeeded to the dukedom, and she is also survived by her daughters Emma and Sophia.
(5) A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder is set in Edwardian London and tells the story of Monty Navarro who finds he is ninth in line to a dukedom - and wants to be first.