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Dame meaning "lady"; entered Middle English from Latin domina, mistress, via French dame (pronounced: [dam]).
A Dame may be:
- A female title indicating rank, equivalent to the 'Sir' used as the title of a knight (e.g., before the name of a Dame Grand Cross or a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire)
- A female Seigneur (e.g., Dame Sibyl Mary Hathaway, Dame of Sark)
- A title of respect for certain Benedictine nuns, for example those of the English Benedictine Congregation (e.g. Dame Laurentia McLachlan, late Abbess of Stanbrook; Dame Felicitas Corrigan, late author, abbess) -- the male equivalent being "Dom", derived from Latin "Dominus" (e.g. Dom John Chapman OSB, late Abbot of Downside)
- A pantomime dame
- An old word for the game pieces in the game of draughts or checkers
- A woman (slang from the 1940s)
- "Dame" (song), the second single from RBD's third studio album Celestial
- Dame Edna Everage, a character played by Australian comedian Barry Humphries
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