Word Finder - dame

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

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Dame Edith Sitwell

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A matron at a school, especially Eton College.

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In traditional pantomime: a melodramatic female often played by a man in drag.

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(slightly derogatory) A woman.

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A lady, a woman.

Barely half a mile westward down Dame Street, rises the Castle, and 300 yds.

A ruddy and lusty old dame, who delights in all weathers and seasons, and is likely to outlive all her children yet.

He is represented as the son of a widow, "la dame veuve," his father having been slain in tourney, battle or by treachery, either immediately before, or shortly after his birth.

The most important building at Courtrai is the church of Notre Dame, which was begun by Count Baldwin IX.

But some of her great successes during the 'eighties and early 'nineties - the days of her chief triumphs - were in Italian versions of such plays as La Dame aux camelias, in which Sarah Bernhardt was already famous; and Madame Duse's reputation as an actress was founded less on her "creations" than on her magnificent individuality.

In May the Danish fleet arrived, and Stockholm was invested by land and sea; but Dame Christina resisted valiantly for four months longer, and took care, when she surrendered on the 7th of September, to exact beforehand an amnesty of the most explicit and absolute character.

Dame Christina and many other noble Swedish ladies were sent prisoners to Denmark.

He added, Someone might want to get word to that dame in Boston who's appointed herself resident expert on the Psychic Tipster.

There is in Moscow a lady, une dame, and she is very stingy.

Similarly, in Notre Dame de Lorette; etude critique sur l'authenticite de la Santa Casa (1906), he dissipated by the aid of authentic documents the legend which had embellished and falsified the primitive history of that sanctuary.

The principal building is the cathedral church (now Protestant) of Notre Dame, which with the castle occupies the highest position.

He had resolved to take holy orders, but his studious disposition led him to decline a stall in Notre Dame, and in 1660 he joined the congregation of the Oratory.

In France St Martin remained the chief goal of the pilgrim; while Notre Dame de Sous-Terre in Chartres (with a portrait of the "black Virgin"), Le Puy-en-Velay (dep. Haute Loire), and others, also enjoyed considerable celebrity.

Probably no examples surpass those on the west doors of Notre Dame in Paris - unhappily much falsified by restoration.

The church of Notre Dame contains two fine pictures by Van Dyck, and one masterpiece of Crayer's.

Notre Dame, the old cathedral, originally erected by the prefect of Gaul, was ruined by the Barbarians, rebuilt in the 11th and 12th centuries, and damaged by the Protestants.

The educational institutions include the free grammar school (founded by James Leigh in 1619 and rebuilt in 1876), the Wigan and District Mining and Technical College (built by public subscription and opened in 1903) and the mechanics' institution, also the convent of Notre Dame (1854), with a college for pupil teachers and a high school for girls, and several Roman Catholic schools.

Thomas reached Deventer when he was barely twelve years old, was taught by a dame the beginnings of his learning, and in a few months to his great joy entered the classes of Florentius Radewyn.

In the church of Notre Dame (16th century) is Rubens' masterpiece "the miraculous draught of fishes," and in that of St John is a fine triptych by the same master.

In the orchestral ballad, La Belle Dame sans Merci, he touches the note of weird pathos, and in the nautical overture Britannia his sense of humour stands revealed.

Stella's mother was living at Moor Park, as servant or dame de compagnie of Temple's strong-minded sister, Lady Giffard.

Other educational institutions of college rank include Vincennes University (non-sectarian), at Vincennes; Hanover College (1833, Presbyterian), at Hanover; Wabash College (1832, non-sectarian), at Crawfordsville; Franklin College (1837, Baptist), at Franklin; De Pauw University (1837, Methodist Episcopal), at Greencastle; Butler University (1855, Christian), at Indianapolis; Earlham College (1847, Friends), at Richmond; Notre Dame University (1842, Roman Catholic), at Notre Dame; Moore's Hill College (r856, Methodist Episcopal), at Moore's Hill; the University of Indianapolis (nonsectarian), a loosely affiliated series of schools at Indianapolis, centring around Butler University; and Rose Polytechnic Institute (1883, non-sectarian), at Terre Haute.

Taking refuge at the church of Notre Dame at Paris, she appealed to King Guntram of Burgundy, who took Clotaire under his protection and defended him against his other nephew, Childebert II., king of Austrasia.

In November the Commune fitted up Notre Dame as a temple of Reason, selected an opera girl to impersonate the goddess, and with profane ceremony installed her in the choir.

The place is interesting chiefly on account of its fine church of Notre Dame, formerly dedicated to St Martin.

He was born in Paris of a noble and influential family of Normandy; hence, being destined to the ecclesiastical state, he was when ten years old commendatory abbot of La Trappe and two other abbeys, prior of two priories, and canon of Notre Dame, Paris.

Dame Suzi will also speak of the issue of multiple births, still the single biggest risk of IVF treatment.

Dame Judi Dench ' s ample bosom caused big problems at the Oscars.

He should really have been knighted by now, or made a dame.

The world's best-known hotels put to the test December 05, 2004 - Times Online There is nothing like a grande dame.

You never know you might even bump into a grand dame during the day.

The secret of being a great dame is for everyone to love you!

Rather like a good dame of football, this album is a tale of two halves.

Kai struggled to his feet as befitted an elderly dame, calling on the lad to buy some pegs for his mother.

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But the mature Gibson is no longer obsessed, as he was in Case's day, by La belle dame sans merci.

As the panto dame was saying " Oh, I don't believe in ghosts " the doors into the circle suddenly slammed shut!

He asked all travelers whether they knew a certain Colonel Lor Crawley avec sa femme une petite dame, tres spirituelle.

These include The Old Dame School, one of two cottages - with The Old Post Office - which show a little architectural finesse.

We are indeed fortunate to have the opportunity to welcome Dame Rennie to the Recruitment Society.

Dame Edna then metamorphosed into a very convincing Billy Connolly, who in turn took off the cast Dad's Army with attitude!

The dame was exceedingly quick in observing their love, which she seemed to consider quite natural.

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Much later, the University at Notre Dame in Paris saw the creation of a new kind of music called organum.

Only very posh people like Dame Maggie get six months.

The 50th anniversary reunion of students from the Notre Dame College of Education took place on 18 June at the University.

In September 1545 Tylcock was elected Junior Bailiff, and in October 1547 he contributed a shilling toward Dame Margaret Northern's coffer.

In 1816 Hunt published Keats's sonnet O solitude in the Examiner and in 1821 La Belle Dame sans Merci in the Indicator.

The central tower of a church over the intersection of the nave and chancel with the transepts is sometimes called the " rood tower "; an example is that at Notre Dame at Paris.

The motif of the former is the poet's futile endeavour, in a dream, to ward off the arrows of Dame Beautee by Reason's "scheld of gold."