Noun

(notorieties)

The condition of being infamous or notorious.

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, title= , chapter=1 citation , passage=I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.}}

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.