How to pronounce“dame”in English
nounI would go to many beautiful, awe- inspiring churches when I was older-- St. Patrick's on Fifth Avenue, St. Peter's in Rome, Notre
Dame de Paris, but St. Jude's on Glenavon Road was the most pragmatic people's church anywhere in the First World.
Built in the post World War II years, St. Jude's was intended as a temporary structure, not meant to last more than a few years.
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Definitions of “dame”
Usually capitalized as Dame: a title equivalent to Sir for a female knight.
“Dame Edith Sitwell”
A matron at a school, especially Eton College.
“Even though the dames’ houses were being gradually phased out at Eton, [John Henry] Newman was enthusiastic about the arrangement since it met one of the promoters’ key demands; besides, he had experienced something similar as a boy at Ealing School, where the boarding houses were also under the jurisdiction of dames. The Ealing dames ensured that boys were properly dressed and cared for them when sick, and they also ran the tuck shops.”
To make a dame.
“The French call simply Pawn, “la Dame qui n’est point Damée, et l’on n’appelle Dame proprement dite, que le Pion qui est Damé, et couvert d’un autre Pion,” which means “the Draught or Pawn which is not damed, and which is only termed Dame or Queen, when the Pawn which is damed, is covered with another Pawn.””
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