baroness

baroness
/bar"euh nis/, n.
1. the wife of a baron.
2. a woman holding a baronial title in her own right.
[1400-50; late ME baronnesse < AF, MF (see BARON, -ESS); r. ME barnesse < AF, OF]
Usage. See -ess.

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