dame
noun
(in Britain)
dames
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pluralof dame.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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West, one of the grande dames of the movement, got her start at Seattle alt-weekly the Stranger and spent years excoriating fatphobia, online misogyny, and male entitlement for the ur-millennial-feminist site Jezebel.
From Slate ● Mar. 31, 2026
Mattie Ross is one of the toughest dames in American literature.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
It's that time of year again when millions of people head to pantomimes to experience the bright lights, cheesy jokes and glamorous dames.
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2025
In a nod to social change, there was a contingent of drag performers costumed as “Catrinas,” skeletal dames dressed in the height of 1870s fashion.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 4, 2023
Boston ladies, their skirts all passe- mentarie and furbelow, India silk and jaconet, crowded the chambers, swiveling their hoops and panniers like dames on clocks to navigate the doors.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
