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grandam
[ gran-duhm, -dam ]
noun
- a grandmother.
- an old woman.
grandam
/ ˈɡrændeɪm; ˈɡrændəm; -dæm; -dəm /
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Origin of grandam1
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Example Sentences
And who do you affection beside her grace your mother, and my lady your grandam, Mistress Ann?
My grandam says the best medicines for uneasy hearts are the bitter herb confession and the sweet flower absolution.
But what will your grandam say, and your tutor, Dominie Holiday?
Then goes the musicker to my grandam, bidding the old Duchess rise up again one hour after she had sought her bed.
So comes my grandam and turns the key in the padlock and looketh in over all the gallimaufrey of lights and pasties and revels.
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