dameship en · NOUN
Etymology
From dame + -ship.
Meanings
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Damehood.
Such sentence and the dameship's cool conceit Roused in the other a maternal heat, Who answered that her daughter was as good As any lordling of her dameship's brood;
1886, William Maestravick Stenhouse, Poems, Songs, and Sonnets, page 213:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| dameships | Number=Plur | lexicographic |