grande dame

"That she should get involved in charity work like other grande dames."

Elsewhere, producers can't seem to get enough of grande dames.

With all that baggage in tow, they hope to return to the Games to triumph as the sport's grande dames.

Ms. Hamburg has befriended many such grande dames.

"Anyone can move here and make a place for themselves very quickly," said one of the city's grande dames, who insisted that her name not be used.

Everyone from grande dames to small children turn out hatted, gloved and generally dressed to the hilt.

Vermont Life, one of the grande dames of state-owned magazines, was first published in 1946.

Big names and grande dames were traditionally in The West End, particularly Mayfair.

Valentino's clothes had the starched, stark simplicity favored by grande dames of high style since the 1950's.

Almost all of Caracas society was here, Dan saw, from ministers of government to the grande dames of the oldest families.

As the rains pounded the day into darkness, the turnout for the auction was sparse: some decorators and clients, dealers and grande dames.

The Court Built and owned by Cora Crane, it was the grandest of the Grande Dames.

Mrs. Draper was one of the grande dames of decorating in an era when a professionally decorated home was a mark of privilege.

Some of society's grande dames resented the changes in the rules they'd learned as girls even more than the unreconstructed male conservatives resented their loss of privilege.

In its early days, Lord & Taylor was one of the grande dames of the Ladies Mile district, which also included B. Altman and Stern's.

To Weicker, a former governor and former Republican, Ms. Lincoln was "one of the grande dames of the Republican Party."

GRANDE DAMES Brooke Astor.

The women are played by some of the grande dames of the British theater - Joan Plowright, Maggie Smith and Judi Dench.

She was Lady Hardwick's protégée, and Lady Hardwicke was one of the grande dames who made the rules of that remarkable establishment.

The film starred the two Marathi Grande dames Shobhana Samarth and Durga Khote.

The son of one of the grande dames of Japanese tennis, he went to school with Miyuki and she turns to him for assistance getting her tennis career started.

For example, Mrs. Walter, a West Orange resident and one of the nation's grande dames of baking, dispensed advice you will not find in any cookbook, except perhaps her own.

Visitors to the Costume Institute - New York grande dames, students of art, design and social history, busloads of tourists and chattering children - seem grateful that is not so.

Both he and the owner pointed out the desirable location: next door, at No. 15, is the Regency Club, which the agent called "the card parlor for very wealthy grande dames who play bridge."

I didn't catch her at it, but I just know Mrs. Le Fevre put stomachache powder in my cake at the last meeting of the Creole Grande Dames.