The hereditary feudal ruler (seigneur) of Sark, when the title is held by a woman in her own right.
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dames
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for dames.
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Given the usual vainglorious soup of mythical names, claims, swains and dames, I think the one film to recommend remains...
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Quick take
The hereditary feudal ruler (seigneur) of Sark, when the title is held by a woman in her own right.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of dames gathered in one view.
(US, dated, informal, slightly derogatory) A woman.
(British, theater) In traditional pantomime: a melodramatic female often played by a man in drag.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for dames.
noun
The hereditary feudal ruler (seigneur) of Sark, when the title is held by a woman in her own right.
noun
(US, dated, informal, slightly derogatory) A woman.
noun
(British, theater) In traditional pantomime: a melodramatic female often played by a man in drag.
noun
(British) A matron at a school, especially Eton College.
Example sentences
Given the usual vainglorious soup of mythical names, claims, swains and dames, I think the one film to recommend remains...
I really wish you were right, but the thing about ladies/women/girls/females/dames/womyn/gals/femmes is, being individuals, they have individual opinions on the matter.
Companies are not helpless dames in a fascist takeover.
Maybe Nicholas Dames is a time traveler!
> No one before Dames seems to have asked where this ancient and deeply established convention came from, or how it spread That's odd.
Good, ethical breeders will track COI (coefficient of inbreeding), pull any breeding dames/sires that show issues themselves or in their offspring, mix up the germ lines, and even go so far as to get mail-order sperm from around the world.
I can't sit here and say everyone who builds anything should build for maximum quality, but I have trouble believing we'd be worse off as a world if we had more Notre Dames and Parthenons and fewer pothole-riddled main streets with falling apart boarded up storefronts.
Quote examples
If you haven't seen it already, check out "Tea with the Dames".
"Twenty years ago, Dames’s classes had no problem engaging in sophisticated discussions of Pride and Prejudice one week and Crime and Punishment the next." Reading Crime and Punishment alone is estimated to take about 11-12 hours at 300WPM.
One chapter was titled "Pantomime Dames", wherein she states her opposition to accepting transsexuals who were assigned male at birth as women:[3]"Governments that consist of very few women have hurried to recognise as women men who believe that they are women and have had themselves castrated to prove it, because they see women not as another sex but as a non-sex.
Proper noun examples
See Noory, Dames, Hoagland, Lazar, et al.
The remote viewing expert in Art Bells program (major Ed Dames?) told us that if you stare little bit aside at the same spot, you can sometimes see small cigar-shaped object with a propeller or antenna on both ends.
Frequently asked questions
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How do you use dames in a sentence?
Given the usual vainglorious soup of mythical names, claims, swains and dames, I think the one film to recommend remains...
What does dames mean?
The hereditary feudal ruler (seigneur) of Sark, when the title is held by a woman in her own right.
What part of speech is dames?
dames is commonly used as noun.