dame

We grandchildren always considered our Mama Chela a doña — a grand Mexican dame who never wore pants and frequently covered her hair with a veil out of modesty.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

She was a made a dame in 2014 for services to the arts and charity.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

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

This dame thought and acted like a man—only tougher, quicker, and more clever.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

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

“Of course it’s daunting to be following in the footsteps of Prue Leith and Mary Berry before her, great dames both, but I’m also bubbling with excitement.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 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

It's that time of year again when millions of people head to pantomimes to experience the bright lights, cheesy jokes and glamorous dames.

From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2025

Boston ladies, their skirts all passe- mentarie and furbelow, India silk and jaconet, crowded the chambers, swiveling their hoops and panniers like dames on clocks to navigate the doors.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson