Grande Dame

Ten years ago, designer Jennifer Post fell in love with the Apthorp, one of Manhattan's classic grande-dame buildings, subleasing a sprawling 5,000-square-foot apartment from a former client for just $1,754 a month. ❋ Candace Jackson (2011)

And the grande-dame tearoom also is dispensing a thoroughly modern amenity to guests: use of an iPad to electronically peruse newspapers or surf the Web. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A designer overhauls her home in one of Manhattan's classic grande-dame buildings. ❋ Candace Jackson (2011)

To be sure, her version of Nevelson doesn't have much in common with the grande-dame Great Artist on display in a videotaped interview conducted by Hilton Kramer in 1986 that can be viewed on YouTube. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"Well, good for him," said grande-dame society diva Nan Kempner. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Formal evening swimwear for the grande-dame gay host... blew my little corseted mind thru the mirror, lemme tell ya! ❋ Unknown (2005)

In 1972, I was pleased that my longtime chic grande-dame client Annie Laurie Aiken brought in her lovely blond daughter, Sunny von Bulow, to look at the collection. ❋ Arnold Scaasi (2004)

The woman of the Pomeranian, I said to myself, must be surely some _grande-dame_, a leader in that mysterious circle which I knew only by its name "society." ❋ Nelson Lloyd (1903)

Kathleen, très grande-dame, almost too exquisitely real for counterfeit; ❋ A. B. [Illustrator] Wenzell (1899)

Nearly all the old-woman and _grande-dame_ characters are played by actresses who have been leading ladies and during some period have had the painful experience of failing, on account of their age, to get the engagements they have sought. ❋ Edward Fordham Spence (1896)

It is not more difficult for a young woman to play the old-woman character or the _grande-dame_ part than for the young man to tackle the ❋ Edward Fordham Spence (1896)

She saw through Lady A. 's little ways and/grande-dame/manners, and knew what they were worth. ❋ Unknown (1883)

Consider the photographs on the bookshelf of the fifth floor of the island's grande-dame hotel, Reid's Palace -- a pageant of older Brits taking great pains to unwind. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Something made out of ice slush and vodka at our evening's first stop, enormous grande-dame gay video bar

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_grande-dame_ manner completely, and was blushing and smiling. ❋ Unknown (1928)

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It may be a refueling, and she’ll go down the route of the great grande-dame roles. ❋ Bennetts, Leslie (2009)

From the landmark grande-dame of Chicago hotels (The Hilton, formerly the Stevens ❋ Unknown (2010)

The lady who entered the room turned many heads towards her and they will remember her after she has left - not by name but by her being because she is a grande dame. [Sophia Loren], Katherine Hepburn, actresses. [Georgia O'Keefe], painter/artist. Queen [Latifa], rap artist. ❋ John2 (2006)

[The Grand] [Dame] entered the party and pretended not to know anyone while creating [flagrant] stories for strangers ❋ Dungstheshit (2018)

Jennifer considers herself to be [the grand] [dame] of the department. Jennifer [behaves] like the grand dame of the office. ❋ The One Named Anne (2011)