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- noun The fact or condition of being a
dame .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Former super-head is first to have damehood revoked
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Former super-head is first to have damehood revoked
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Perhaps he was too awed by her damehood to press for details.
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In education, Jeanette Orrey, the former dinner lady who invited chef Jamie Oliver and his TV cameras into her canteen kitchen, received an MBE, and there was a damehood for Sylvia Morris, headteacher at the Cathedral School of St Saviour and St Mary Overy, Southwark.
New Year honours: Recognition for unsung heroes in the public sector 2011
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Former super-head is first to have damehood revoked
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She's a bit young for a damehood, but let's put her name down early.
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Also receiving honours from the Monarch at Buckingham Palace will be Clara Furse, chief executive of the London Stock Exchange, who receives a damehood for her career in the financial services industry.
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Also receiving honours from the Monarch at Buckingham Palace will be Clara Furse, chief executive of the London Stock Exchange, who receives a damehood for her career in the financial services industry.
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She declined a damehood, but accepted a Companion of Honour at the end of 1999 for “conspicuous national service”.
doris lessing | a hunger for books « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2007
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Clifford Curzon and Moura Lympany, though richly deserving, only got their knighthood and damehood because Ted Heath was in power.
A few essentials Jessica 2007
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