Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To make a dame.
Usually capitalized as Dame: a title equivalent to Sir for a female knight. · A matron at a school, especially Eton College. · In traditional pantomime: a melodramatic female often played by a man in drag. · A woman.
From Middle English dame, dam (“noble lady”), from Old French dame (“lady; term of address for a woman; the queen in card games and chess”), from Latin domina (“mistress of the house”), feminine form of dominus (“lord, master, ruler; owner of a residence”), or from Latin domus (“home, house”). Doublet of domina and donna.
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