beldam
noun
an old woman, especially an ugly one; hag.
beldame
-
a variation of
beldam.
Example Sentences
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But once Alex talks to UBA's beldame, whose grandfather founded the network and simply wants all of it to go away, she realizes the right interviewer isn't her.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2023
To it are invited Socialite Dr. & Mrs. Talbot, a brutal financier named Packard and his wife who "speaks pure Spearmint," Carlotta Vance, a dated theatrical beldame, and Larry Renault, a has-been film star.
From Time Magazine Archive
Climbing to the top of a Hoboken tenement, Miss Patterson tapped on a door and at once confronted a beldame "about ten feet wide."
From Time Magazine Archive
Onto the platform sweeps "the richest woman in the world," a flamboyant beldame whose effects include a wooden leg, a pair of eunuchs, a caged panther and an empty coffin.
From Time Magazine Archive
With the craft of the tiger-cat, who grovels along treacherously towards its prey, the beldame profited by the countess's preoccupation to move imperceptibly around the table which separated her from her victim.
From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 4 of 6 by Eugène Sue
