dames
/deɪmz/ · noun
Meaning
- Usually capitalized as Dame: a title equivalent to Sir for a female knight.
- A matron at a school, especially Eton College.
- In traditional pantomime: a melodramatic female often played by a man in drag.
- (slightly derogatory) A woman.
- A lady, a woman.
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