grandam
noun
a grandmother.
grandame
-
a variation of
grandam.
Example Sentences
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A parcel of folk were standing about a stout old grandame.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
That's just it, grandame," said Michael, "and so ye'd better not tell her at all.
From Trevethlan: Volume 1 A Cornish Story. by William Davy Watson
"What'll his old grandame say," asked farmer Colan, "when she understands the rights of the matter?"
From Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) A Cornish Story. by William Davy Watson
The grandame whom he supplied with fagots, the merchant whom he rescued from robbers, the King's councillor to whom he gave aid, all became his friends.
From The Gate of the Giant Scissors by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston
Very casually, very indolently, he began to tug at his gloves, staring all the while with malevolent joy on the fearful crayon portrait of the ancient grandame.
From The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
