Dame
Dame noun - A dignified usually elderly woman of some rank or authority.
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Older woman and dame are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Older woman" instead a noun "Dame".
Nearby Word: Damian
Older woman
Dame and older woman are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Dame" instead a noun phrase "Older woman".
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In pantomime any middle-aged or older woman (the "pantomime dame") will be played by a man in drag.
Source: Cross-Cast Role -
The Grande Dame is the stately older woman — usually of wealth and rank, though often enough only wishing to appear so — who is very often a large woman of ample physique, uptight, humorless, and the butt of jokes.
Source: Grande Dame -
Van Hoskins, as with many comedy grande dame characters, is a wealthy, snobbish older woman with a Dutch last name (implying she either is from or has married into old New York money) who travels with a wide array of suitcases, one containing an impressive collection of jewellery.
Source: Film / What's Up, Doc?
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