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
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
Ice skating duo Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean have received a damehood and knighthood respectively in the New Year Honours list, while England women's manager Sarina Wiegman has been made an honorary dame.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2025
C.P. was surprised when Elna Spaulding, wife of Asa T. Spaulding and the grande dame of the Mutual community, came through the door.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
Rugby league star Kevin Sinfield is knighted while children's authors Malorie Blackman and Julia Donaldson are made dames in the King's Birthday Honours.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
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
In a nod to social change, there was a contingent of drag performers costumed as “Catrinas,” skeletal dames dressed in the height of 1870s fashion.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 4, 2023
Dad thought it was great that I was writing a weekly column about, as he put it, the skinny dames and the fat cats.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
