heiress
/ɛəˈɹɛs/ noun C1- A woman who has a right of inheritance or who stands to inherit.
- A woman who has received an inheritance.
Plural heiresses
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“She has one only daughter, the heiress of Rosings, and of very extensive property.”
The house of the Duke of Bracciano is one of the most delightful in Rome, the duchess, one of the last heiresses of the Colonnas, does its honors with the most consummate grace, and thus their fêtes have a European celebrity.
In dying, I will say to those around me what Voltaire wrote to Piron: ‘Eo rus, and all will be over.’ But come, Franz, take courage, your wife is an heiress.”
It was then generally reported that Mademoiselle de Villefort, the heiress of the marquis and marchioness of Saint-Méran, had regained the good graces of her grandfather, and that she would ultimately be in possession of an income of 300,000 livres.
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