0 the wife or widow of a peer. -- isteri, balu bangsawan
1 a woman who is a peer in her own right. -- wanita bangsawan
Nearly 200 distinguished men and women who have been created life peers and peeresses are serving in the other place.
We believe that it will be open to men and women who will want to serve as life peers or peeresses.
Indeed, to leave out the six peeresses is a delightful example of how illogical, not women, but men can be in certain matters.
Why are peeresses in their own right excluded?
I am broadminded enough even to include any life peers and peeresses who may have seen the folly of their ways.
Then, of course, there is the position of life peeresses, who would be placed in a somewhat delicate position.
For instance, peers and peeresses are allowed to vote in local government elections, but not in parliamentary elections.
If she has not got it, whether she is a peeress or not, she cannot go.
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