| 单词 | great-grandame |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgreat-grandame great-grandame n. archaic = great-grandmother n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > grandparent > [noun] > grandmother > great-grandmother great-grandmother1530 great-grandame1538 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Proauia, my great grandame. 1543 Necessary Doctr. Christen Man sig. k.iv No man shall marry with his mother, hys graundame, his great graundame. 1665 M. Nedham Medela Medicinæ 33 Diseases of the Female Sex grown more severe than they were in the days of their great Grandames. 1700 J. Dryden Fables Pref. sig. *Cv We have our Fore-fathers and Great Grand-dames all before us, as they were in Chaucer's Days. 1804 Public Characters 1803–1804 xiii. 211 Many of our young ladies doubtless burn with the Same ardour for wealth, splendour, and a ducal coronet, that their grandmothers and great grand-dames exhibited half a century ago. 1858 W. H. Ainsworth Mervyn Clitheroe iii. ix. 303 Your great-grandame, Honoria, Lady Wilburton, was Mrs. Mervyn's aunt. 1901 B. Macfadden Athlete's Conquest (rev. ed.) ix. 211 My daughters shall grow into great grandames. 1921 Flower Grower Apr. 82/2 Were royal great grand-dame more gay Than I with this my flower display? < as lemmas |
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