Meaning of gräfin | Babel Free

Definitions

A German countess.

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Examples

“Having here little to do but viser passports and flirt with married gräfins rather fat than fair, he had applied himself to a study of prophecy.”

“Mrs. Grahame was puzzled at finding that her letters of introduction, whose probable efficacy she had measured by that of the £4985 19s. 7½d., expended at 180, Belgrave Square, produced at Carlsbad a large assortment of princes and princesses, grafs and gräfins, and super-induced young Englishmen, coroneted and otherwise, whom she had failed of attracting to any one of her two balls, one concert, and six dinners, in London.”

“[…]old women are seeking to earn a few groschen by carrying home the purchases of buyers, and even a sprinkling of lady baronesses and gräfins, each attended by a footman,[…]”

“Emerald enclosed faith, though gräfins needed faith mostly in grafs.”

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