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
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 Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell
While you beside the fire, a grandame gray,
From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver
Come to the table, grandame, and sup the posset while it is hot.
From The Old Countess; or, The Two Proposals by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)
"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 Watson, William Davy
