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Brewer's: Comes
(2 syl.). A Latin military title, now called count on the continent of Europe, but earl in England from the Saxon earldorman (alderman), Danish eorle. The wife of an earl is called countess.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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