grande dame
Example Sentences
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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
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
Some years ago, I was a guest for lunch there, the plus-one of an English friend who had been invited by Vanderlip’s grande dame daughter-in-law Elin.
From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2024
One such crime took place at the city's most graceful grande dame, the 233-room Imperial Hotel, in 1897.
From BBC • Jul. 8, 2023
A tasteful awning hung over the entrance, bearing the silhouette of a Parisian grande dame.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
