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dame
/deɪm/
noun
Usually capitalized as Dame: a title equivalent to Sir for a female knight.
"Dame Edith Sitwell"
A matron at a school, especially Eton College.
In traditional pantomime: a melodramatic female often played by a man in drag.
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