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Definition of Dame

Dame

A mistress of a family, who is a lady; a woman in authority; especially, a lady.

The mistress of a family in common life, or the mistress of a common school; as, a dame's school.

A woman in general, esp. an elderly woman.

A mother; -- applied to human beings and quadrupeds.

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Dame Quotations

A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
Mae West

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

You treat a lady like a dame, and a dame like a lady.
Frank Sinatra

The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?
Rush Limbaugh

I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
Bette Davis

I haven't seen the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre. I haven't seen anything. I don't really care.
Tyra Banks

Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.
Dick Cavett

I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame.
Ethel Merman

I missed so many opportunities along the way to do what I wanted to do because I didn't have the confidence to tell myself, much less anybody else, 'Yes, this is the business I wanted to be a part of, and not feeling that I had the talent... and letting it go all the way through Notre Dame and then through two years of Navy service.
Regis Philbin

Well, I've known Elizabeth almost all of her life and almost all of my life. And I love her with all of my heart and she's always been there for me. She's a wonderful, wonderful dame. She's a great lady.
Liza Minnelli

In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame.
Phil Donahue

If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end.
Edward Koch

I regard myself as an actress but, obviously, not in the Dame Judi Dench league. That isn't a problem because I don't think we are ever likely to be up for the same part!
Kelly Brook

This dame keeps dragging me into the bushes. Keep your eye open, you may have to rescue me.
David O. Selznick

There is nothin' like a dame.
Oscar Hammerstein II

I don't know what my appeal is. I can see I've got blue eyes and don't look like the Hunchback of Notre Dame but I can't understand the fuss.
Rutger Hauer

And there's no way I'm going to do Dame Edna.
Miranda Richardson

I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame.
Dan Devine

I think that she's a great dame. I'm crazy for Lucille.
Jessica Walter

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Dame Translations

dame in Afrikaans is dam
dame in Danish is dame
dame in Dutch is jonkvrouw, dam, lady, vrouw
dame in French is dame
dame in German is Dame

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