grandam
Americannoun
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a grandmother.
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an old woman.
noun
Etymology
Origin of grandam
1175–1225; Middle English gra ( u ) ndame < Old French grant dame. See grand, dame
Example Sentences
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By the Games of 2022, it may be grandam Kissling who is declaring that, say, rhythmic snow dancing does not deserve to be elevated alongside her time-honored pursuit.
From Time Magazine Archive
To many of her contemporaries Eleanor was a byword for wantonness, in Shakespeare four centuries later a "canker'd grandam"; by the time of Victoria, Charles Dickens thought it sufficient to call Eleanor "a bad woman."
From Time Magazine Archive
Afar off, in the forest, There lived her grandam old; And she was poor and needy, And often sick and cold.
From Red Riding Hood by Very, Lydia L.
"But where's thy good grandam?" queried he, "must she tarry to put on silks and satins in which to bid her son a welcome?"
From The Fifth of November A Romance of the Stuarts by Bentley, Charles S.
Menil was got by Partner: out of Sampson's-Sister, which was got by Greyhound: her grandam by Curwen's Bay Barb: her g. grandam by Ld.
From Seaport in Virginia George Washington's Alexandria by Moore, Gay Montague
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