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

I feel like Dame Edna wrote my book — some delusional grande dame who’s so funny.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2025

Mrs. Bohm created a vast body of photographs, in the process becoming a grande dame of the art form, before she died at 98 on March 15 at a care facility in Northwest London.

From New York Times • May 4, 2023

They were boarding a train for Oxford to meet Dorothy Hodgkin, the grande dame of crystallography.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee