Noblewoman I start to see in pubs (8)
I believe the answer is:
baroness
'noblewoman' is the definition.
(baroness is a kind of noblewoman)
'i start to see in pubs' is the wordplay.
'i' becomes 'one' ('one' can be a synonym of 'i').
'start to' suggests taking the first letters.
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'pubs' becomes 'bars' (I've seen this in other clues).
The initial letter of 'see' is 's'.
'one'+'s'='ones'
'ones' placed within 'bars' is 'BARONESS'.
(Other definitions for baroness that I've seen before include "Lady peer" , "Aristocrat" , "Female life peer" , "Woman life-peer" , "Noble" .)