The cover of the moderncd, issued by EMI Classics withDameJanet Baker and SirJohn Barbirolli in 1965, carries a portrait ofDame Janet wearing a long coral necklace in reference to the song 'Where the Corals lie' to words byRichard Garnett (1835–1906).
2005, Paul Shrimpton, “Darnell’s School”, inA Catholic Eton?: Newman’s Oratory School, Leominster, Herefordshire: Gracewing,→ISBN,page88:
Even though thedames’ houses were being gradually phased out at Eton,[John Henry] Newman was enthusiastic about the arrangement since it met one of the promoters’ key demands; besides, he had experienced something similar as a boy at Ealing School, where the boarding houses were also under the jurisdiction ofdames. The Ealingdames ensured that boys were properly dressed and cared for them when sick, and they also ran the tuck shops.
2016, David Noy, “Parents, Childhood, Youth (1739–1760)”, inDr Johnson’s Friend andRobert Adam’s Client Topham Beauclerk, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Cambridge Scholars Publishing,→ISBN,page14:
As he [Fréderic Guyaz] worked forTopham [Beauclerk] while he was at Eton, it is likely that Topham was a day-boarder there, living at home in Windsor. His Eton "dame" was Mrs. Bland; day-boarders were allocated to adame at whose house they took their meals.
Windsor is on the opposite side of the River Thames from Eton.
[page 73, column 2]Mother Goose was produced on the 29th of December; Simmons playing the OldDame;[…] [page 74, column 1] Bugle condemns her to the ducking-stool, a sentence opposed by Colin, who espouses the cause of the OldDame, who, escaping from her persecutors, puts an end to the wedding festivities by raising the ghost of the Squire's first wife.
2013, Maureen Hughes, “Welcome to the Magical World of Pantomime”, inA History of Pantomime, Barnsley, South Yorkshire:Pen & Sword History,→ISBN,page34:
TheDame in a Panto is generally a large, gregarious and out-going man who plays the part of a large, gregarious and out-going woman.[…] Every successful actor who plays the part ofDame in Panto knows that the secret of his success is that it should be obvious that it is a man playing a part, for this is not a Drag act; the intention is not to be as womanly as possible, but always to be 'a feller in a frock'.[…] Oh how everyone loves the PantoDame for sheis Panto.
1576,George Whetstone, “The Castle of Delight:[…]”, inThe Rocke of Regard,[…], London:[…][H. Middleton] for Robert Waley,→OCLC; republished inJ[ohn] P[ayne] Collier, editor,The Rocke of Regard,[…] (Illustrations of Early English Poetry;vol. 2, no. 2), London: Privately printed,[1867?],→OCLC,page55:
Now, thou, dearedame, that workſte theſe ſweete effectes in mee, / Vouchsafe my zeale, that onely ſeeke to ſerve and honour thee.
a.1638,Ben Jonson, “The Twelvth Night’s Revells”, in Peter Cunningham, edited byDavid Laing,Inigo Jones and Ben Jonson: Being the Life of Inigo Jones.[…], London: Printed for the Shakespeare Society,[…], published1853,→OCLC,page101:
[T]hough they were first-form'ddames of Earth, / And in whose sparcklinge and refulgent eyes / The glorious sonne did still delight to rise;[…]
1684,Edward Ravenscroft,Dame Dobson: Or, The Cunning Woman. A Comedy as it is Acted at the Duke’s Theatre, London: Printed for Joseph Hindmarsh,[…],→OCLC, act I, scene xi,page25:
And do you think myDameDobſon don't know a little better than you? She tells you, you need ſay no more, and 'tis an affront to her Art not to believe her; and I'le not ſee myDame affronted.
[H]e pointed his staff at a female figure on the path, in whom goodman Brown recognized a very pious and exemplarydame, who had taught him his catechism, in youth, and was still his moral and spiritual adviser, jointly with the minister and deacon Gookin.
1849,Wolfgang Menzel, “First Period. Heathen Antiquity.”, in Mrs. George Horrocks, transl.,The History of Germany, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time.[...] Translated from the Fourth German Edition.[...] In Three Volumes, volume I, London:Henry G[eorge] Bohn,[…],→OCLC, part I (Origin and Manners of the Ancient Germans), section XX (Wolen and Walkyren),page45:
The poetical relation between the pagan warrior and his celestial bride changed, in course of time, to that between the Christian knight and his ladye-bright, who also was not always an earthlydame, but the holy Virgin or some saint.
The hereditary feudal ruler (seigneur) of Sark, when the title is held by a woman in her own right.
1805,Richard Twiss, “On Draughts”, inMiscellanies, volume II, London:[…], page162:
The French call simplyPawn, “la Dame qui n’est point Damée, et l’on n’appelle Dame proprement dite, que le Pion qui est Damé, et couvert d’un autre Pion,” which means “the Draught or Pawn which is notdamed, and which is only termedDame orQueen, when the Pawn which isdamed, is covered with another Pawn.”
1995, H. Paul Jeffers,A Grand Night For Murder:
Jonathan’s first edition ofCalais was signed by DameAgatha [Christie]. Not as Dame Agatha, just plain Agatha. She gotDamed later.
1995,Mediaweek, pageC-8:
[…]Joanna Lumley, both pros in their respective fields, and both Brits in their respective hearts, are now both newly knighted (damed, in Lumley’s case) by England’s Queen Lizzy.
2004,John Lahr, “Barry Humphries: Playing possum”, in Matthew Ricketson, editor,The Best Australian Profiles,Black Inc.,→ISBN, page215:
Edna [Everage] wasdamed spontaneously, on camera, by the Socialist Australian prime ministerGough Whitlam.
2006, Andrew Hosken,Nothing Like a Dame: The Scandals of Shirley Porter, London:Granta Books,→ISBN, page289:
Peter Bradley, deputy leader of the Labour group, scoffed that she [Shirley Porter] had been ‘Damed with faint praise’ and further observed that every pantomime needs a Dame.
2013, Tracy Farr,Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt,Fremantle Press:
And then, of course, there was thedame-ing. It didn’t take much to be made a dame in the ’70s.
The nonstandard pluraldamesch is occasionally encountered in archaising contexts, particularly insororities. This spelling, however, is anunetymological faux-archaism, as the plural marker-s was historically never spelled-sch.
Occasionally, in very formal or official registers,dame can be used as a title with a woman's name, for exampledame Jeanne Dupont. Normal usage would beMadame Jeanne Dupont.
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