Millicent and Carla Fran are real dames, though those are not their real names. They met in a dame-school called life.
Helpful Facts:
- Once upon a time they lived in a hot wet city in the South in a house that was haunted.
- They got MFAs.
- They battled cockroaches.
- After this, one started an online magazine.
- Before this, one worked as a frog surgeon.
- Neither knits.
- One helps women give birth; the other has watched.
- Both have old white cars. And wigs.
- Both got married.
- One divorced.
- They teach college students.
- They write chunks of movies.
- They know that the right kind of flower helps a room.
- The same is true of television.
- And sequins.
- Or tea. And beer.
- And you.
dame [deym] noun
1. (initial capital letter) (in Britain) a. the official title of a female member of the Order of the British Empire, equivalent to that of a knight.
b. the official title of the wife of a knight or baronet.
2. (formerly) a form of address to any woman of rank or authority.
3. a matronly woman of advanced age; matron.
4. Slang: Sometimes Offensive. a woman; female.
5. Ecclesiastical. a title of a nun in certain orders.
6. a mistress of a dame-school.
7. Archaic. the mistress of a household.
8. Archaic. a woman of rank or authority, esp. a female ruler.
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b. the official title of the wife of a knight or baronet.
2. (formerly) a form of address to any woman of rank or authority.
3. a matronly woman of advanced age; matron.
4. Slang: Sometimes Offensive. a woman; female.
5. Ecclesiastical. a title of a nun in certain orders.
6. a mistress of a dame-school.
7. Archaic. the mistress of a household.
8. Archaic. a woman of rank or authority, esp. a female ruler.
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[Origin: 1175–1225; ME < OF < L domina, fem. of dominus lord, master]
