Duchess vs Baroness - What's the difference?
duchess | baroness |
The female spouse or widow of a duke.
* 2012 , Caroline Davies, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge announce they are expecting first baby'' (in ''The Guardian , 3 December 2012)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/dec/03/duke-and-duchess-of-cambridge-expecting-baby?intcmp=122]
The female ruler of a duchy (where women can reign).
(UK, informal) to court or curry favour for political or business advantage; to flatter obsequiously.
* 1956 , John Thomas Lang, I Remember ,
* 1996 , , 2003,
* 2004 , , A New Britannia , Fourth Edition,
* 2006 , Jacqueline Dickenson, Renegades and Rats: Betrayal and the Remaking of Radical Organisations in Britain and Australia ,
As nouns the difference between duchess and baroness
is that duchess is the female spouse or widow of a duke while baroness is the female ruler of a barony. The male equivalent is baron.As a verb duchess
is to court or curry favour for political or business advantage; to flatter obsequiously.As a proper noun Duchess
is a village in Alberta, Canada.duchess
English
Noun
(es)- The Duke and Duchess' of Cambridge have ended months of intense speculation by announcing they are expecting their first child, but were forced to share their news earlier than hoped because of the ' Duchess's admission to hospital on Monday.
Verb
(es)page 64,
- On arrival in England he was “duchessed'” in a manner that no Australian Prime Minister has ever been “' duchessed ” before or since. Northcliffe was looking for someone around whom he could build a campaign against Asquith. Hughes filled the bill nicely.
page 46,
- ‘A word to the wise, Murray. Those wogs you?ve been duchessing at Ethnic Affairs have got nothing on the culture vultures. Tear the flesh right off your bones, they will.’
page 66,
- The traditional version of Hughes? decision to introduce conscription gives central importance to his visit to London in April 1916 where it is alleged he was duchessed and deceived concerning recruitment figures.
page 144,
- But by 1914 Grayson had, according to Groves, been thoroughly duchessed , believing that he could enjoy the good things in life and still serve the cause.
