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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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
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
She lived, lonely and sad, as well as she could in our great garret: we ate little, our bed was hard, and she and my grandam labored hard to get a pittance.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. by Various
And she would press him to have some claret wine; but he said no: perchance he guessed that good grandam had but small store of that.
From Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures by Black, William
A woman's story at a winter's fire, Authorized by her grandam.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
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