grande dame

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Today’s glass and steel tower over the bones of what was once the grande dame of colonial luxury, the Hong Kong Hotel.

From Salon • Jul. 12, 2025

But now the grande dame has decided to hang up her ballet shoes after a 72 year career.

From BBC • Apr. 24, 2025

Lange’s Lillian Hall is a theater grande dame playing the charismatic matriarch in a Broadway revival of Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard.”

From New York Times • May 30, 2024

In this underground classic, a screenwriter witnesses the hopes, confusions and corruptions of fame, from an aspiring starlet to an over-the-hill grande dame whose heirs await her demise.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2023

To be the grande dame of the beautiful, terrible past.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez