dame
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She was a made a dame in 2014 for services to the arts and charity.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
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
Nearly two years on, Dame Tracey told the BBC she still has the "rebel" in her, but that being a dame means she also now has "a louder voice".
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 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
“It’s very film noir. All we need is a fog machine and a dame with a gun and checkered past.”
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
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
"She's certainly one of the grande dames in Scotland," she said.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2025
Movies: Olivier’s widow could be playing grand dames on stage, but she likes the travel and money from matriarchal characters in films.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2025
Boston ladies, their skirts all passe- mentarie and furbelow, India silk and jaconet, crowded the chambers, swiveling their hoops and panniers like dames on clocks to navigate the doors.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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