- a variation of beldam.
beldame
Example Sentences
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But once Alex talks to UBA's beldame, whose grandfather founded the network and simply wants all of it to go away, she realizes the right interviewer isn't her.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2023
To it are invited Socialite Dr. & Mrs. Talbot, a brutal financier named Packard and his wife who "speaks pure Spearmint," Carlotta Vance, a dated theatrical beldame, and Larry Renault, a has-been film star.
From Time Magazine Archive
Climbing to the top of a Hoboken tenement, Miss Patterson tapped on a door and at once confronted a beldame "about ten feet wide."
From Time Magazine Archive
Onto the platform sweeps "the richest woman in the world," a flamboyant beldame whose effects include a wooden leg, a pair of eunuchs, a caged panther and an empty coffin.
From Time Magazine Archive
The guards accordingly made way for her, and a wild, ragged, squalid, and malignant-looking beldame prostrated herself at the monarch's feet.
From Tales of the Wonder Club Volume I by M. Y. Halidom
