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noun

Dame n.

A mistress of a family, who is a lady; a woman in authority; especially, a lady. "Then shall these lords do vex me half so much, As that proud dame, the lord protector's wife."

The mistress of a family in common life, or the mistress of a common school; as, a dame's school. "In the dame's classes at the village school."

A woman in general, esp. an elderly woman.

A mother; applied to human beings and quadrupeds. (Obs.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dame" Quotes from Famous Books

... what you need to-morrow," she called to the marquise, kissed—obeying a hasty impulse—her little namesake's picture, rejected any expression of thanks from the astonished old dame, and ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... way of war. In later years, others drifted westward on the tide of border migration, where adventure was always to be had. This stir of enterprise in a breed tends to extinction in the male lines. Men are thinned out in their wooing of danger—the belle dame sans merci. Thus there were but few Penhallows alive at any one time, and yet for many years they ...

— Westways • S. Weir Mitchell

... Seamstresses and Maids together vie, And the spruce 'Prentice shines in Sword and Tye: Bandy'd in Lace the City Dame appears, Her Hair genteelly frizzled round her Ears; Her Gown with Tyrian Dyes most richly stain'd, Glitt'ring with Orient Pearl ...

— The Ladies Delight • Anonymous

... presented Lady Dilke's two volumes on the French Renaissance, in 1880, to the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, with an admiring report, and Sir Charles's admiration for Renan's writing was great. Of Mme. Renan he says: 'This homely-looking old dame was not only a good wife, but a woman of the soundest sense and the most ...

— The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Vol. 2 • Stephen Gwynn

... of the Terrible hath made me His son; from out the sepulchre hath named me Dimitry, hath stirred up the people round me, And hath consigned Boris to be my victim. I am tsarevich. Enough! 'Twere shame for me To stoop before a haughty Polish dame. Farewell for ever; the game of bloody war, The wide cares of my destiny, will smother, I hope, the pangs Of love. O, when the heat Of shameful passion is o'erspent, how then Shall I detest thee! ...

— Boris Godunov - A Drama in Verse • Alexander Pushkin

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