dame
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The “grand dame diva of culture, divahood and porcine glamour” Miss Piggy, was honored at the show, where she showed up, naturally, in a pink dress and feather boa.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
Labour MP Jessica Morden is made a dame for her political service and former Tory MP Greg Hands is knighted for the same reason.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
She was made a dame in 2009, and has also acted as a senior adviser to the British government and the United Nations on artificial intelligence.
From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026
Twila is, in Hollywood parlance, a “firecracker” — you know, the tough-talking dame who inevitably nurses a wounded heart.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2026
“Is that a dame? I can’t see a thing. Someone turn me around.”
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
West, one of the grande dames of the movement, got her start at Seattle alt-weekly the Stranger and spent years excoriating fatphobia, online misogyny, and male entitlement for the ur-millennial-feminist site Jezebel.
From Slate ● Mar. 31, 2026
Mattie Ross is one of the toughest dames in American literature.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
The grandes dames of British theatre reminisced about their lives and careers, with searing honesty and humility.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2025
In a nod to social change, there was a contingent of drag performers costumed as “Catrinas,” skeletal dames dressed in the height of 1870s fashion.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 4, 2023
I was transported to a world where men wore shiny shoes, kids tap-danced, and ladies were called dames.
From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm
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