grandee

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Persons came into the world as withered grandames and as old gentlemen with gold-headed canes, and then receded like crabs backward into their maturity, then into their adolescence and babyhood.

From Chimney-Pot Papers by Endell, Fritz August Gottfried

It is remembered how one day a zealous sister thundered so loud against corporal punishment that some mothers and grandames were roused to equally ardent rejoinder.

From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Elliott, Maud Howe

Make merry, wives! ye little children stun Your grandames ears with pleasure of your noise!

From Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King by Kingston, Alfred

In that room where they were now assembled what a long line of mothers and children, of grandsires and grandames, united or resigned, had lived and died!

From Autumn Glory The Toilers of the Field by Bazin, Ren?

It has been told by every generation, handed down by grandames at the fireside, narrated night and day, and the chronicle has changed its complexion somewhat in every age.

From Christ in Flanders by Marriage, Ellen