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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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"Dame" Quotes from Famous Books

... When Dame Capoulade had withdrawn, after bringing them their wine and casting a few logs upon the fire, La Boulaye turned his back to the ...

— The Trampling of the Lilies • Rafael Sabatini

... and hospitality galore. "Make yourselves comfortable"—in Hotel "Dame Nature!" Well, we were all weary enough to accept the hospitality. We turned into the adjacent field, "stacked arms," and in a jiffy were rolled up in our blankets and sound asleep. The mattresses ...

— War from the Inside • Frederick L. (Frederick Lyman) Hitchcock

... think on those heart-exhilarating days! The lion has lost the sturdy grasp of his paw: I must now put up, like a lynx, with a bit of cheese. An old woman had stained her gray locks black. I said to her: O, my antiquated dame! thy hair I admit thou canst turn dark by art, but thou never canst make thy ...

— Persian Literature, Volume 2, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The - Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan • Anonymous

... generally kept in check by their natural politeness, which always manifests itself when they are treated properly. In fact, the first effort which I ever made to acquire a knowledge of English Rommany originated in a voluntary offer from an intelligent old dame to teach me "the old Egyptian language." And as she also suggested that I should set forth the knowledge which I might acquire from her and her relatives in a book (referring to Mr Borrow's having done so), I may hold myself fully acquitted ...

— The English Gipsies and Their Language • Charles G. Leland

... Every dame affects good fame, whate'er her doings be, But true praise is Virtue's bays, which none may wear but she. Borrowed guise fits not the wise, a simple look is best; Native grace becomes a face though ne'er so rudely drest. Now such new-found toys are sold these women ...

— Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age • Various

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