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dameish en · ADJ

Etymology

From dame + -ish.

Meanings

1. (rare) Characteristic of a dame.
   • It would have been much more sensible and old-dameish to have kept you, but I have whims as well as other people; […] 1880, Julie P. Smith, The Married Belle, Or Our Red Cottage at Merry Bank:
   • The voice on the other end was scared all right, but definitely dameish and definitely flirty. 2011, Diane Miller, Carolyn Hennesy, The Secret Life of Damian Spinelli:
   • "[…] I suppose tomorrow we must call on that very dameish woman, Mrs Warburton, with Miss Talbot?" 1854, Harriet Parr, Maude Talbot, by Holme Lee, volume 1, page 188:

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