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‖ grande dame|grɑ̃d dam|
[Fr.]
A great lady; a lady of rank and dignified bearing. Also as attrib. phr.
1744H. Walpole Let. 8 May (1857) I. 301, I have seen her but once, and found her..très grande dame. 1775A. Storer Let. 29 July in Hist. MSS. Comm. 15th Rep. App. VI. (1897) 281 And little Ursula a finer lady, from being at Bath, than ever, there being no such grande dame there as herself. c1845C. Brontë Professor (1857) viii. 140 A licence of manners..such as our venerable grand-dames would recoil from. 1855J. S. Mill Let. 15 Jan. in F. A. Hayek J. S. Mill & Harriet Taylor (1951) 215 O those grandes dames how all vestige of the very conception of strength or spirit has gone out of them. 1862Thackeray Philip i, She had been a great beauty, and was a perfect grande dame always. 1865‘Ouida’ Strathmore I. ii. 35 Or you've made love to some grande dame because it answered a political purpose. 1908Daily Chron. 21 Feb. 3/2 Mrs. Saker, who is an accomplished player of ‘grand-dame’ parts. 1936Burlington Mag. Apr. p. xv/2 A Florentine grande dame seated in a canopied carriage. 1969New Yorker 11 Oct. 43/1 A grande dame caught in the middle of dressing. |