as in lady
a woman of high birth or social position
traditionally, noblewomen—whether they are titled or not—have served as great patronesses of the arts
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Recent Examples of noblewoman
Here, the grand portals to the spa are flanked by two fine classical marble statues, one of an unnamed noblewoman and the other of Julius Caesar.
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Tony Perrottet, Travel + Leisure, 14 Dec. 2024
Poured into the photorealistic portrait of noblewoman Lisa del Giocondo are every one of his skills as a painter, inventor, botanist and unmatched expert on water dynamics, gravity, anatomy and philosophy.
—Hunter Ingram For Variety, ARTnews.com, 21 Nov. 2024
Nearly half of Florence’s noblewomen were cloistered.
—Michelle Weber, Longreads, 15 Nov. 2024
Within the galleries, for example, there’s an early portrait of a breastfeeding noblewoman installed near a large 2019 Cecily Brown abstraction of cavorting horses and hounds.
—Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 28 Mar. 2025
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Tony Perrottet, Travel + Leisure, 14 Dec. 2024
Poured into the photorealistic portrait of noblewoman Lisa del Giocondo are every one of his skills as a painter, inventor, botanist and unmatched expert on water dynamics, gravity, anatomy and philosophy.
—Hunter Ingram For Variety, ARTnews.com, 21 Nov. 2024
Nearly half of Florence’s noblewomen were cloistered.
—Michelle Weber, Longreads, 15 Nov. 2024
Within the galleries, for example, there’s an early portrait of a breastfeeding noblewoman installed near a large 2019 Cecily Brown abstraction of cavorting horses and hounds.
—Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 28 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for noblewoman
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Then, after the murder is accomplished, there's just no remorse whatsoever or any regret expressed by any of them for murdering this innocent lady.—
Audrey Conklin,
FOXNews.com,
2 June 2025
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Macron and France's first lady Brigitte Macron arrived in Indonesia's capital, Jakarta, late Tuesday for the second stop in his tour after Vietnam, where Macron signed a deal to sell Hanoi 20 Airbus planes.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
29 May 2025
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Prince Andrew had gone to live on the French Rivera with a countess.—
Michael Goldstein,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025
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An epic love story between an American big game hunter and a British countess was upended by the strangling mores of class and tradition.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
23 Feb. 2025
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While Jon is bound to leadership by a sense of duty, Daenerys sees herself as a liberator, a queen steeped in moral righteousness who freed slaves across the sea for the greater good.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
14 July 2017
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THE TRENDSETTER Salt & Straw is the homecoming queen of ice cream in LA.—
Cole Kazdin,
Los Angeles Magazine,
14 July 2017
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Peeking out in the bottom of the photo are a pair of sandals, complete with a pedicure fit for a duchess.—
Catharine Malzahn,
Glamour,
29 May 2025
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However, there were also suggestions Meghan had left staff in tears during the tour and on their return Kensington Palace press secretary Jason Knauf wrote an email to William's private secretary Simon Case accusing the duchess of bullying two PAs out of the household.—
Jack Royston,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 May 2025
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The novelists’ parents were Patrick and Maria Brontë, an Irish clergyman and a Cornish gentlewoman who married in 1812.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
29 May 2025
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But Mary declined, preferring an informal gentlewoman’s agreement instead.—
Sarah Holzmann,
Smithsonian Magazine,
8 Feb. 2025
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“Noblewoman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/noblewoman. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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