dame

     

Dame meaning "lay"; entered Middle English from Latin domina, mistress, via French dame, (/dam/).

Trivia about dame

  • When Dana Andrews used this term for women in "Laura", he didn't mean they'd been knighted
  • "There is nothin' like" one(4)
  • There is nothing like this term for a female knight or the wife of a lord
  • When a woman gets a knighthood from the British, she gets this title before her name
  • "There is nothing like" one: Judi Dench, for example
  • A knight's wife; there's "Nothing Like" one
  • On New Year's Eve 1999, Queen Elizabeth awarded her this title