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grande dame

[ gran dam, deym; French grahnd dam ]

noun

plural grandes dames
  1. a usually elderly woman of dignified or aristocratic bearing.
  2. a woman who is the doyenne of a specific field:

    a grande dame of the American theater.



grande dame

/ ɡrɑ̃d dam /

noun

  1. a woman regarded as the most experienced, prominent, or venerable member of her profession, etc

    the grande dame of fashion

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of grande dame1

1735–45; < French: literally, great lady
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Lange’s Lillian Hall is a theater grande dame playing the charismatic matriarch in a Broadway revival of Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard.”

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In the summer of 1974, I was working as a waiter at the White Elephant, the grande dame of Nantucket hotels, a rambling gray-shingled pile that sits right on the island’s harbor.

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The first pick here comes from a grande dame of Australian letters, although she would probably balk at the term.

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Mrs. Bohm created a vast body of photographs, in the process becoming a grande dame of the art form, before she died at 98 on March 15 at a care facility in Northwest London.

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Often described as the “grande dame of Southern cooking,” Lewis was an accomplished chef and cookbook author who helped increase America’s understanding of the breadth and elegance of Southern cuisine.

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