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What is a viscount?

What is a viscount? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A member of the peerage, above a baron but below a count or earl.
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He was made a viscount in 1946, and was Governor-General of Canada until 1952, when he became Churchill's Minister of Defence.
The old maid had never before met any man as seductive as this Olympean viscount.
It is the prerogative of a viscount or a baron to make a person feel small, and of a baronet to extinguish him.
He is a viscount, and descended from one of the noblest families in Auvergne.
This is the writ of summons calling him to the Lords as viscount Lackington.
Attendants of an earl, viscount or baron wore six rows of curls on state wigs and five on house wigs.

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