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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Countess \Count"ess\ (kount"?s), n.; pl {Countesses} (-?s). [F.
comtesse See {Count} a nobleman.]
The wife of an earl in the British peerage, or of a count in
the Continental nobility; also a lady possessed of the same
dignity in her own right See the Note under {Count}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
countess
n : female equivalent of a count or earl
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