beldame
Example Sentences
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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
To it are invited Socialite Dr. & Mrs. Talbot, a brutal financier named Packard and his wife who "speaks pure Spearmint," Carlotta Vance, a dated theatrical beldame, and Larry Renault, a has-been film star.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
I lay still in my blanket, counting the strokes which rang out in thin, peevish monotony, like the cracked voice of a beldame repeating her petty woes.
From Cardigan by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
