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Beldame   Listen
noun
Beldame, Beldam  n.  
1.
Grandmother; corresponding to belsire. "To show the beldam daughters of her daughter."
2.
An old woman in general; especially, an ugly old woman; a hag.
Synonyms: hag, beldam, witch, crone. "Around the beldam all erect they hang."





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"Beldame" Quotes from Famous Books



... watching a sweet little chapeau-de-soie immediately beyond. Your patience is exhausted, and your curiosity driven to the highest pitch of anxiety; you make a desperate stride, push by the old bonnet, and look round with indignation to see what beldam had thus been between you and the "cynosure of neighbouring eyes:"—whew! 'tis the pretty young shop-girl that served you with your last pair of gloves, and measured them so fascinatingly along your hand, that your heart still palpitates with the electrical ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 • Various


Words linked to "Beldame" :   hag, crone, witch, beldam, old woman


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