Meaning of duchesshood | Babel Free

Definitions

The quality of being a duchess.

uncountable

Examples

“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.””

“Now I can turn⟳ left to the centre of roses (Queen Mary’s—she again, metamorphosed now out of Princess- and Duchesshood) or go on past the big knobbed tree that says it is a manna ash, and on past the next which is a weeping elm, to the little hill still fragrant with herbs, although most of them are withering.”

“[…]Wally had attained duchesshood at 11:47 a.m.”

“Good samaritan that he was! He had secured scorn and rejection for her instead of exalted duchesshood!”

““Well, dear Eugenia might have⟳ had something to do with that. She was always a staid young woman, but achieving the exalted heights of duchesshood seems to have⟳ cast⟳ her even further into stiff propriety.[…]””

“Ralph Berry, who admits that this is a “difficult pronouncement” since we must ask⟳ ourselves in what Duchesshood may “consist⟳, when the recognizable aspects have⟳ been removed,” nevertheless concludes that she “can die⟳ like⟳ a Duchess: she can define⟳ herself as an identity by behaving at the last⟳ as a Duchess should””

““Your fate is quite inextricably tied to mine now, Mrs. Pryce. Please⟳, let⟳ go of your ambitions of duchesshood and proudly claim⟳ your place⟳ as the bride of a bastard ship captain!””

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