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
If he broke the vow, the beldame said, for nine generations no Lambton would die in his bed.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
The sixpence was immediately given her, and the most implicit obedience promised to her injunctions by both Bryan and his wife, who already began to regard the old beldame as their tutelary angel.
From Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
