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Grande dame   /grænd deɪm/   Listen
Grande dame

noun
1.
A middle-aged or elderly woman who is stylish and highly respected.





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... German agents; the Tuileries was not exempt—you know it as well as I. Paris swarmed with spies of every kind, high and low in the social scale. The embassies were nests of spies; every salon a breeding spot of intrigue; the foreign governments employed the grande dame as well as the grisette. Do you remember ...
— The Maids of Paradise • Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers


Words linked to "Grande dame" :   madam, ma'am, lady, dame, gentlewoman


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