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  • noun Plural form of dame.

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Examples

  • As this book has been waiting patiently for purchase on my wish list, I appreciate reading this overview. veggievixen Aug 10 les dames is such a great organization!

    Cooking with Les Dames D’Escoffier | Baking Bites 2009

  • The death of the bull, when properly managed, creates as much interest in the ladies of Lima, as the death of the hare to the English huntress, or the winning horse to the titled dames at Newmarket or Doncaster.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 352, January 17, 1829 Various

  • There, messieurs et dames, is what I would expound to you; voilà l’amour!

    Down and Out in Paris and London 1933

  • Without attempting to disguise their sentiments, they openly insulted the titled dames belonging to the new nobility, and such of the latter as were compelled to go to court on account of the situations held by their husbands, never entered the saloon without dread, and never quitted it without being bathed in tears.

    Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I Pierre Alexandre ��douard Fleury de Chaboulon 1807

  • Society journals have informed me that titled dames have been known to sit out long and wearisome evenings that they may obtain some paltry favour in a cotillon.

    The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

  • The Duchess came to me to beg I would procure an order for her daughter's people, that is, her dames d'honneur, her femmes de chambre, and her hair-dresser, to be sent to her.

    The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency d'Orleans, Charlotte -Elisabeth, duchesse 2001

  • Hitherto she had associated the practice of chivalrous principles and the grand code of honor exclusively with lofty gentlemen like the Earl and her father, or with titled dames; now, however, she learned that here, in Obed

    The Cryptogram A Novel James De Mille

  • The Duchess came to me to beg I would procure an order for her daughter's people, that is, her dames d'honneur, her femmes de chambre, and her hair-dresser, to be sent to her.

    Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

  • ‘But there, messieurs et dames, that is what I promised to expound to you.

    Down and Out in Paris and London 1933

  • Society journals have informed me that titled dames have been known to sit out long and wearisome evenings that they may obtain some paltry favour in a cotillon.

    Confessions of a Beachcomber 1887

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