dame
A1#724Hear it
noun
- lady
- queen
- draughtsUK), checkers (US
interjection
- why, indeed
Used in the library
- Esdras avait été chercher le jeu de cartes, des car tes au dos rouge pâle, usées aux coins, parmi lesquelles la dame de coeur, perdue, avait été remplacée par un rectangle de carton rouge vif qui portait l'inscription bien claire: «Dame de coeur.»Ezra had been looking for the deck of cards, because yours with a pale red back, worn out at the corners, among which the lady of heart, lost, had been replaced by a rectangle of bright red cardboard which had the very clear inscription: "Lady of heart."B1Maria Chapdelaine
- Prenons garde d'effrayer les dames.Let's be careful to scare the ladies.B2Le Chevalier de Mornac
- — Mais cette dame? demanda Porthos.- But this lady? asked Porthos.B2Les Trois Mousquetaires
- Il y épousa une des dames d'honneur de la reine, et fut fait baronnet de la Nouvelle-Ecosse.He married one of the queen's ladies of honour there, and was made a baronet of Nova Scotia.C1Histoire du Canada, tome I