grandes dames
- plural of grande dame.
Example Sentences
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Until her death last year, Helen Vendler was one of the grandes dames of American letters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
The grandes dames of British theatre reminisced about their lives and careers, with searing honesty and humility.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2025
Rowlands embodied tough cookies, glamour girls and grandes dames, with suburban housewives in between.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2024
She challenged doubters again on Monday when Strauss’s “Der Rosenkavalier” returned to the Metropolitan Opera with Davidsen, 36, making her role debut as the Marschallin — a character more typically portrayed by seasoned grandes dames.
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2023
He had always liked to believe that "grandes dames" leaned back in the luxurious upholstery of their victorias, landaulettes, daumonts or automobiles with an air of inexpressible though languid hauteur.
From His Own People by Tarkington, Booth
