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grande dame

noun

ˈgrän-ˈdäm

Definition of grande dame

as in dowager

a dignified usually elderly woman of some rank or authority the city's grandes dames still hold considerable sway in its cultural life

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Recent Examples of grande dame Whether career girl or sexpot, gender bender or grande dame, Saint Laurent’s women were always new, and for the designer, newness was the most natural and inevitable thing in the world. — Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2026 Some are centuries-old grande dames; others are boutique newcomers. — Laura Dannen Redman, Robb Report, 23 July 2026 If the Marbella Club is the grande dame of this Andalusian resort town, Puente Romano Marbella is its younger, friskier sister on the Golden Mile. — Staff Author, Travel + Leisure, 2 July 2026 So far, so Agatha Christie, although that grande dame of whodunits stuck to human crime-solvers. — Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 27 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for grande dame

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The show’s underpinned by the differences in character and country of Lady Cora and her formidable mother-in-law, the dowager Countess Violet Crawley, played by the equally formidable and much missed Dame Maggie Smith.

— Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 22 July 2025
The empress dowager’s legacy Empress Dowager Ling was largely unsuccessful in her bid for power.

— Stephanie Balkwill, The Conversation, 17 Mar. 2025

Definition of dowager

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An extremely unattractive teenage girl who resembled a forty-year-old matron in a women’s prison rather than a young woman fresh on the road to self-discovery approached me.

— Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026
Cohran was a rarity in 1936 — a female police officer, known then as a police matron.

— CBS News, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of matron

Noun

Talley, whose mother, Brandii, works as a dental hygienist, went into the day with a one-shot lead and finished six back of eventual winner María José Marín.

— Caoimhe O'Neill, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
The cubs were born in early July to Toba, their mother, and Argos, their father, who has since died of cancer.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2026

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