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dame

/deɪm/
noun
  1. Usually capitalized as Dame: a title equivalent to Sir for a female knight.

    "Dame Edith Sitwell"

  2. A matron at a school, especially Eton College.

  3. In traditional pantomime: a melodramatic female often played by a man in drag.

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