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Definition of grande dame in English: grande damenoun ɡrɒ̃d ˈdamˈɡrän ˈdäm A woman holding an influential position within a particular sphere. 某领域有影响的妇女 the grande dame of British sculpture 英国雕刻界的名媛。 Example sentencesExamples - The Stratford grande dame has heard it all over the course of a career that has included many of the great women's roles in the English repertoire.
- The grande dame of tennis plans to play one more year on the circuit in hopes of representing the United States at the 2004 Athens Olympics - one minor hole in her sporting life.
- As the grande dame of French film, it's easy to appreciate why Baye was a little disconcerted by the film's title.
- And that the most dignified thing we ageing grandes dames can do is smile wryly, surrender and follow the sun.
- The grande dame of newspaper columnists was recently complaining that the electorate were behaving like unprincipled, selfish consumers.
- My companion is something of a grande dame of the food world and is thus the perfect diner for the Lord Edward.
- Okay, so it's true that the grande dame of literary gender politics has calmed down an awful lot since the 1970s.
- Even television, the grande dame of conventional mass marketing, is taking steps to offer a more focused advertising experience.
- All things considered, with this work, Lessing once again proves that she more than deserves her reputation as the grande dame of literary fiction.
- On this recording, made in 1990 (in the presence of the composer), she is something of a grande dame surrounded by three youthful companions.
- Eighty next year, with a dozen novels behind her and as much writing again in other forms, Howard is still simmering with ideas and projects, still playing her part as a grande dame of English letters.
- Margaret Court, the grande dame of tennis in Australia, agreed: ‘In Alicia we have got somebody who has it all.’
- But Hopper, who was the grande dame of gossip columnists at that time, she was constantly castigating us in the press for living in sin.
- Someone suggested she might like to reminisce with the other grande dame of the book festival.
- She was the grande dame of the American theatre.
- And I was pleased to see that Anne Summers, one of the grandes dames of Australian feminism, agrees with me.
- On Friday morning of 11 th March, the grande dame of Indonesian cinema, Christine Hakim, sat with graceful poise for this interview.
- At seventy-eight, Fox has a new-found and stylishly invigorated fame that gives her grande dame status for a swelling number of devotees who have come to recognize her charm, her wisdom, and her art.
- The celebrated grande dame of Hindi letters is very individual, very stylised, very hard to replicate in another language.
- Withers, the grande dame of this and previous improv festivals, spoke about improvisation during the post-show reception onstage.
OriginFrench, literally 'grand lady'. Definition of grande dame in US English: grande damenounˈɡrän ˈdäm A woman of influential position within a particular sphere. 某领域有影响的妇女 the grande dame of British sculpture 英国雕刻界的名媛。 Example sentencesExamples - On this recording, made in 1990 (in the presence of the composer), she is something of a grande dame surrounded by three youthful companions.
- Margaret Court, the grande dame of tennis in Australia, agreed: ‘In Alicia we have got somebody who has it all.’
- Withers, the grande dame of this and previous improv festivals, spoke about improvisation during the post-show reception onstage.
- My companion is something of a grande dame of the food world and is thus the perfect diner for the Lord Edward.
- Eighty next year, with a dozen novels behind her and as much writing again in other forms, Howard is still simmering with ideas and projects, still playing her part as a grande dame of English letters.
- The celebrated grande dame of Hindi letters is very individual, very stylised, very hard to replicate in another language.
- The grande dame of tennis plans to play one more year on the circuit in hopes of representing the United States at the 2004 Athens Olympics - one minor hole in her sporting life.
- And that the most dignified thing we ageing grandes dames can do is smile wryly, surrender and follow the sun.
- She was the grande dame of the American theatre.
- The Stratford grande dame has heard it all over the course of a career that has included many of the great women's roles in the English repertoire.
- At seventy-eight, Fox has a new-found and stylishly invigorated fame that gives her grande dame status for a swelling number of devotees who have come to recognize her charm, her wisdom, and her art.
- The grande dame of newspaper columnists was recently complaining that the electorate were behaving like unprincipled, selfish consumers.
- Someone suggested she might like to reminisce with the other grande dame of the book festival.
- And I was pleased to see that Anne Summers, one of the grandes dames of Australian feminism, agrees with me.
- Even television, the grande dame of conventional mass marketing, is taking steps to offer a more focused advertising experience.
- All things considered, with this work, Lessing once again proves that she more than deserves her reputation as the grande dame of literary fiction.
- Okay, so it's true that the grande dame of literary gender politics has calmed down an awful lot since the 1970s.
- But Hopper, who was the grande dame of gossip columnists at that time, she was constantly castigating us in the press for living in sin.
- As the grande dame of French film, it's easy to appreciate why Baye was a little disconcerted by the film's title.
- On Friday morning of 11 th March, the grande dame of Indonesian cinema, Christine Hakim, sat with graceful poise for this interview.
OriginFrench, literally ‘grand lady’. |