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
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
If he broke the vow, the beldame said, for nine generations no Lambton would die in his bed.
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
My nurse was a crooning old beldame Who gazed in the palms of my hands And vowed I was destined to travel In many and marvellous lands.
From The Autobiography of a Monkey by Albert Bigelow Paine
