peeresses

• If their peers and peeresses are improbable their literary men, tradespeople and cottagers are impossible; and their intellect seems to have the peculiar impartiality of reproducing both what they have seen and heard, and what they have not seen and heard, with equal faithfulness. —  George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings and Philosophy
• Some of the peeresses were so fond of their robes, that they graciously exhibited themselves for a whole day before to all the company their servants could invite to see them. —  Letters of Horace Walpole, v1
• The line formed was continually augmented by all classes of people,—peers, peeresses, cabinet members, members of the House of Commons, military and naval officers, clergymen, costermongers, old and young, until 6 o'clock, when the doors were opened and the procession commenced to stream into the Hall, and passed the catafalque. —  The Grand Old Man
• Furthermore, a message was sent in {109} writing to all peers, peeresses, and privy councillors, declaring that no one who went to the prince's court would be admitted into the King's presence. —  A History of the Four Georges, Volume II (of 4)
• Galleries were erected for the peeresses, foreign ambassadors, and the most distinguished visitors. —  The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2

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