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First lady to be seated, in a sense (5)

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I believe the answer is:

astor

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'first lady' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are singular nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?

'to be seated in a sense' is the wordplay.
'be seated in' is an insertion indicator.
'sense' becomes 'sr' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'a'+'sr'='asr'
'to' inserted within 'asr' is 'ASTOR'.

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(Other definitions for astor that I've seen before include "Female politician" , "First female MP" , "First woman to sit in the House of Commons, d. 1964" , "female parliamentarian" , "See 2" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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