dame
贵妇人,贵族,贵妇,贵夫人
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- : the official title of a female member of the Order of the British Empire, equivalent to that of a knight.the official title of the wife of a knight or baronet.
- : a form of address to any woman of rank or authority.
- : a matronly woman of advanced age; matron.
- : Slang: Sometimes Offensive. a term used to refer to a woman: Some dame cut me off and almost caused an accident.
- : Ecclesiastical. a title of a nun in certain orders.
- : a mistress of a dame-school.
- : Archaic. the mistress of a household.
- : Archaic. a woman of rank or authority, especially a female ruler.
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His new bosses agreed that the Korean native, 44, presented “the best tasting of anyone” throughout a five-month search for someone to take charge of the grand dame and its underground tavern, the Tombs.
On days with tight deadlines, we would suit up Mac and walk up Magazine Street to the Garden District, gazing at the grand dame homes and peeking into vintage clothing stores.
If necessity is the mother of invention then the quarantine has been innovation’s grand dame.
“This is campaign activity,” said Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer, a law professor and associate dean at the University of Notre Dame.
Over a glass (or more) of port, we toast to the Queen…and Dame Judi Dench.
Dame Diana Rigg, who plays Lady Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones, has turned tales of critical bashing into a delightful play.
Both are graduate students in biology at the University of Notre Dame.
But a study out of Notre Dame this month appears to offer some support for the much-maligned tests.
But "the cards never forgive," and as a rule Dame Fortune is relentless to the reckless player.
Dame Dorothy Packington sent the trusty and well beloved Thos.
In a flash Isabel had responded with a challenge of appeal, which that accomplished dame was quick to understand.
Here the proud state that claimed him as her own offspring, met him with the injustice of a malignant step-dame.
At all events, we have nothing but this minister-general between us and Notre-Dame.