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Recent Examples of grande dame
Then in her mid-fifties, Bainbridge was already well on her way to the status of a slightly rackety grande dame, having made her name in the Seventies with a blizzard of short, elliptical novels, comic in execution but tinged with an underlying darkness.
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Christopher Tayler, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
Athena, meanwhile, is a grande dame with an inability to shake anything off.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 17 Jan. 2026
Grand Hotel Parker’s Naples’ historic grande dame occupies a privileged position on a hill in the elegant Chiaia neighborhood, with sweeping views of the Bay of Naples and Vesuvius in the distance.
—Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 19 Dec. 2025
Historical grande dames don’t seem to be her forte.
—Judy Berman, Time, 4 Dec. 2025
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Christopher Tayler, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
Athena, meanwhile, is a grande dame with an inability to shake anything off.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 17 Jan. 2026
Grand Hotel Parker’s Naples’ historic grande dame occupies a privileged position on a hill in the elegant Chiaia neighborhood, with sweeping views of the Bay of Naples and Vesuvius in the distance.
—Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 19 Dec. 2025
Historical grande dames don’t seem to be her forte.
—Judy Berman, Time, 4 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for grande dame
Noun
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The show’s underpinned by the differences in character and country of Lady Cora and her formidable mother-in-law, the dowager Countess Violet Crawley, played by the equally formidable and much missed Dame Maggie Smith.—
Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
22 July 2025
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The empress dowager’s legacy Empress Dowager Ling was largely unsuccessful in her bid for power.—
Stephanie Balkwill,
The Conversation,
17 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The matron on duty, Annie Leewright, booked the woman into jail.—
Kevin Foster,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
28 Mar. 2026
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The couple will spend the remainder of the early morning hours in a threesome with an elderly society matron, sucking on her earlobes.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
28 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The looming strike has stressed mothers like Caryn Dobrow, who has twin sons and went through the LA school strike in 2019.—
Jeff Nguyen,
CBS News,
7 Apr. 2026
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Privacy law may apply to, say, a stranger who broadcasts a toddler’s febrile seizure to a potential audience of millions, but the same child generally cannot claim a legal right to privacy from his mother or father.—
Jessica Winter,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2026
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“Grande dame.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grande%20dame. Accessed 7 Apr. 2026.
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