dame
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The “grand dame diva of culture, divahood and porcine glamour” Miss Piggy, was honored at the show, where she showed up, naturally, in a pink dress and feather boa.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
She was made a dame in 2009, and has also acted as a senior adviser to the British government and the United Nations on artificial intelligence.
From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026
Twila is, in Hollywood parlance, a “firecracker” — you know, the tough-talking dame who inevitably nurses a wounded heart.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2026
England women's football coach Sarina Wiegman was made an honorary dame.
From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2025
Two small heads bent earnestly over each of the three dog-eared primers which were all the dame school could boast.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
West, one of the grande dames of the movement, got her start at Seattle alt-weekly the Stranger and spent years excoriating fatphobia, online misogyny, and male entitlement for the ur-millennial-feminist site Jezebel.
From Slate ● Mar. 31, 2026
Until her death last year, Helen Vendler was one of the grandes dames of American letters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
"She's certainly one of the grande dames in Scotland," she said.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2025
Movies: Olivier’s widow could be playing grand dames on stage, but she likes the travel and money from matriarchal characters in films.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2025
He could get a job dealing faro in Reno—regular hours and no dames.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
