dame

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#1·8h ago

(Britain) Usually capitalized as Dame: a title equivalent to Sir for a female knight.

Dame Edith Sitwell

Origin: thumb|English actress Dame Judi Dench at the 60th British Academy Film Awards in February 2007. Dench was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1988, and thus uses the title “Dame” (sense 1) From , noble lady, from , from , form of lord, master, ruler; owner of a residence, or from .. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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#2·8h ago

(Britain) A matron at a school, especially Eton College.

The cover of the modern , issued by EMI Classics with Dame Janet Baker and Sir John Barbirolli in 1965, carries a portrait of Dame Janet wearing a long coral necklace in reference to the song 'Where the Corals lie' to words by [[w:Richar…

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#3·8h ago

(Britain, theater) In traditional pantomime: a melodramatic female often played by a man in drag.

Even though the dames’ houses were being gradually phased out at Eton, [[w:John Henry Newman

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