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heiress

[ UK /ˈe‍əɹɛs/ ]
[ US /ˈɛɹəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. a female heir

How To Use heiress In A Sentence

  • His marriage to an heiress is a tragedy.
  • His father had inherited the Acton family baronetcy and his mother was the heiress of a German nobleman, the Duke of Dalberg.
  • The countess of Lincoln, twice widowed, once by Thomas, earl of Lancaster, and once by Ebulo Lestraunge, and therefore with two dowers, as well as being the Lacy heiress in her own right, was a very worthwhile prospect for anyone on the rise.
  • What if all these old heiresses of the script die one day?
  • Bassanio, a noble but poor Venetian, asks his friend Antonio, a rich merchant, for 3,000 ducats to enable him to prosecute fittingly his suit of the rich heiress Portia at Belmont.
  • While asked to mediate between the rival families of Lusignan and Angoulême, he married the Angoulême heiress Isabella, who had been betrothed to Hugh de Lusignan.
  • Most spectacular in this period, however, were the marriages of European nobles to the heiresses of American millionaires.
  • BThe 36 acres of hilltop land were owned by Aline Barnsdall, an oil heiress who dabbled in producing avant-garde theater.
  • All this, of course, is predictable - heiress turns to feelgood charity work. Times, Sunday Times
  • I was a rich heiress – I had, I believe, a hundred thousand pounds, or more, and twice as many caprices: I was handsome and witty – or, to speak with that kind of circumlocution which is called humility, the world, the partial world, thought me a beauty and a bel-esprit. Belinda
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