beldame

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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

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

If he broke the vow, the beldame said, for nine generations no Lambton would die in his bed.

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

But even this solitary consolation was now denied him, and the idea that he had been so grossly imposed upon by an old beldame, added to the galling reflections which his misfortune had inflicted.

From Gómez Arias Or, The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance. by Trueba y Cosío, Joaquín Telesforo de