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
Then there are others, and this dame was one of them, who can drain off energy and joy, can suck pleasure dry and get no sustenance from it.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" 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
Mattie Ross is one of the toughest dames in American literature.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 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
The grandes dames of British theatre reminisced about their lives and careers, with searing honesty and humility.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2025
He could get a job dealing faro in Reno—regular hours and no dames.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
