dame vs peeress

dame

noun
  • A queen. 

  • Usually capitalized as Dame: a title equivalent to Sir for a female knight. 

  • In traditional pantomime: a melodramatic female often played by a man in drag. 

  • A matron at a school, especially Eton College. 

verb
  • To make a dame. 

peeress

noun
  • A woman holding a noble title in her own right. 

  • A noblewoman married to a peer. 

How often have the words dame and peeress occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )