old dame

My ostensible errand on this occasion was to get measured for a pair of shoes; so I discharged that business first, and when it was done, I stepped across the clean and quiet little street from the shoemaker’s to the post-office: it was kept by an old dame, who wore horn spectacles on her nose, and black mittens on her hands.

I splayed my fingers and waved my arm like a grand old dame, from sky to sidewalk.

Grand old dame likes everything that’s happening here, people!

Now 72, he has announced he is retiring after this year's Christmas show, titled The Grand Old Dame of York.

Dear old Dame Helen doesn’t want Americans to suffer the same painful remorse that Great Britain is currently dealing with over the Brexit referendum.