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Dame vs Dace - What's the difference?

dame | dace |

As a verb dame

is .

As a proper noun dace is

.

dame

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (British) The .
    • Dame Edith Sitwell
  • (dated, informal, slightly, derogatory, US) A woman.
  • * 1949 , (Oscar Hammerstein II), "(There is Nothing Like a Dame)",
    • There ain't nothin' like a dame'! / Nothin' in the world! / There is nothin' you can name / That is anythin' like a ' dame !
  • A traditional character in British pantomime, a melodramatic female often played by a man in drag.
  • (archaic) , woman.

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    dace

    English

    (wikipedia dace)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The shoal-forming fish common in fast-flowing rivers in England and Wales.
  • * 1949 , (George Orwell), (Nineteen Eighty-Four) , p28
    • Somewhere near at hand, though out of sight, there was a clear, slow-moving stream where dace were swimming in the pools under the willow trees.
  • (US) Any of various related small fish of the family Cyprinidae that live in freshwater and are native to North America.

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