Read full poem →Amidst their virtues a reserve of vice. 20
The godly dame, who fleshly failings damns,
Scolds with her maid, or with her chaplain crams.
Dictionary Entry
Usually capitalized as Dame: a title equivalent to Sir for a female knight.
In a Sentence
“Dame Edith Sitwell”
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “dame”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Like these, Vertumnus own'd his faithful flame,
Like these, rejected by the scornful dame.
To gain her sight a thousand forms he wears;
Read full poem →Silence! the knave's repute, the whore's good name,
The only honour of the wishing dame;
Thy very want of tongue makes thee a kind of fame.
Read full poem →So spoke the dame, but no applause ensued;
Belinda frown'd, Thalestris call'd her prude.
Read full poem →4 Then bravely, fair dame,
Resume the old claim,
Read full poem →In candid arts to play the critic well.
Ovid himself might wish to sing the dame
Whom Windsor Forest sees a gliding stream;
Read full poem →Both fierce, both hungry; the dispute grew strong,
While, scale in hand, Dame Justice pass'd along.
Before her each with clamour pleads the laws,
Read full poem →Aglaia slept. We sat: the Lady glanced :
Then Florian, but no livelier than the dame
That whisper’d “ Asses’ ears ” among the sedge,
Read full poem →He winked at the thief
And smiled at the dame;
Read full poem →What savage, brute affection,
Would not be fearful to offend a dame
Of this excelling frame?