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.

Noun

(en noun)

* {{quote-book, year=1594, author=Christopher Marlowe, title=Massacre at Paris, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=O graunt sweet God my daies may end with hers, That I with her may dye and live againe.}}

* {{quote-book, year=1601, author=Robert Yarington, title=A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV., chapter=Two Lamentable Tragedies, edition= citation

, passage=Go downe and see; pray God my man keep close; If he prove long-tongd then my daies are done.}}