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"grande dame" Definitions
  1. a woman with a lot of experience and influence in a particular area

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Don't think the Grande Dame has come undone just yet.
To grande dame Fanny (Harriet Harris), their doubts are ignoble.
But by then, France's grande dame was considered damaged goods.
Commander's Palace is one of New Orleans' historic grande dame restaurants.
When she became an international star, people called her a Grande Dame.
The old station is like a grande dame long past its prime.
Not a grande dame, heiress or celebrity but ... the fashion house MaxMara.
In Cuba Ms. Abiodun became a kind of grande dame of revolution.
FREEHOLD "Louise Nevelson: The Grande Dame of Contemporary American Sculpture," PowerPoint presentation. Aug.
When she volunteers to inventory the estate of the local grande dame, Mrs.
Her mother is Deedie Rose, the Texas art collector and Dallas grande dame.
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander is widely regarded as the grande dame of landscape architecture.
Claire Grunwald, of Claire Accuhair, is the grande dame of Brooklyn's sheitel machers.
"I loved that show; you were like the sophisticated grande dame," he said.
Walsh was undoubtedly a grande dame of the widows, she is not the best remembered.
The French cinema lost a grande dame, Danielle Darrieux, and a femme fatale, Jeanne Moreau.
She was treated as the event's grande dame as people lined up to speak with her.
She neither flopped into obscurity nor did she develop from cute comedy girl into grande dame thesp.
It is the grande dame of Paris pâtisseries and there are plenty scattered all over the city.
And the orchids sent by Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger, the grande dame of The Times, were simply lovely.
Mrs Lilian Beattie-Seaman has been described as a "ferociously pompous grande dame of absolutely the stiffest corset".
In his Broadway debut, 2010's "Looped," Valerie Harper portrayed the grande dame of the stage Tallulah Bankhead.
She drops by Joan's house not to see the grande dame herself, but to talk with Mamacita, her housekeeper.
She led me to a grande dame, the Riviera on Riverside Drive, a 21904-story building completed about 2303.
This chandelier-filled grande dame, founded in 1681, is one of the oldest and finest city hotels in Europe.
But when the Depression hit, the rest of the plan was scrapped, granting the resilient grande dame a reprieve.
In rebuilding the bathroom, Mr. Biederman said, his inspiration was Brooke Astor, the grande dame of New York society.
The grande dame of Bangkok hotels, the Mandarin Oriental, is celebrating its 140th anniversary this year with a major renovation.
Noelle took a similar approach when reinventing this Art Deco grande dame, which originally opened as a hotel in 1930.
Weighing roughly 3,000 pounds (1,360 kg) and measuring 15 feet (5 meters) long, Bubbles was considered the "grande dame" of SeaWorld.
Gage & Tollner, the long-suffering grande dame of New York restaurant landmarks, will get yet another chance to reclaim its dignity.
Selling FINE Art The target Sears customer was the average American, not the uptown grande dame bedecked in pearls and furs.
Built in 217 in the city's central Syntagma Square, this 219-room grande dame is a shrine to Old World opulence.
And many Israelis were outraged by the abrupt termination of Channel 1's "Mabat," the grande dame of Israel's news programs.
Society Every presidential administration needs a grande dame to smooth relations between rival factions and serve as a bridge to society.
The arrest and rehab stint of grande dame Luann de Lesseps have given an unexpected amount of weight to the Bravo show.
The following year, Lacey and Larkin won the prize they'd chased for years—The Village Voice, the grande dame of alt-­weeklies.
After reinventing the Sunset Tower, a 1929 grande dame on Sunset Boulevard, the hotelier Jeff Klein was mulling what to do next.
" Yevgenia Albats, the grande dame of Moscow opposition journalism, fumed that "the theory of fake news was confirmed and the Kremlin is celebrating.
This iconic Art Deco grande dame was opened in 1930 in downtown Reykjavik by Johannes Josefsson, a wrestler in the 1908 London Olympics.
Each star references something from their storyline, from Huger's self-appointed "Grande Dame" status to Dillard's new marriage and Samuels' umbrella-freakout last season.
When she became, in the 1960s, the most famous actress in France and an international star of film, people called her a Grande Dame.
And of course Wintour herself will also be appearing in the film, because it wouldn't be the Met Gala without the grande dame of fashion.
The LME has the backing of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx), which bought the 140-year old grande dame of metals trading in 2012.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Rosalyn Drexler, who just turned 90, is an unlikely grande dame of painting, but that is what she is.
"We wanted to blend into the fabric" of the neighborhood, he said, but with amenities that the grande dame, prewar co-ops often cannot provide.
The grande dame is the Frick Collection on Fifth Avenue, currently presenting Renaissance bronzes by Bertoldo di Giovanni and matter-of-fact painting by Manet.
But while many heritage brands are eager to push their designs into the 21st century, Goyard, the luggage industry's grande dame, refuses to be hurried.
Erika's vagina first comes up in a truly bizarre way, when RHOBH grande dame Lisa Vanderpump is admiring the "Xxpen$ive" singer's gigantic rosé party hair.
Even Olympia, the grande dame of London's summer fairs, taps into new talent for the first time in its 44-year history with a dedicated section.
Almost immediately, old-money forces align against her in the form of Violet (Patricia Clarkson), a grande dame who wants the store's historic premises for herself.
Set into the dunes overlooking the northern end of the Grand Plage, the Hôtel du Palais is the last remaining grande dame of Biarritz's royal past.
Williams, the oldest women's Grand Slam singles finalist in the Open era, has clearly redefined what constitutes a tennis grande dame with her late-career success.
But within a decade, Chez Panisse went from a raucous counterculture outpost to a food-world mecca, with Waters as the grande dame of virtuous eating.
Bibi Ferreira, an indefatigable grande dame of the Brazilian stage who performed internationally and helped bring Broadway musicals to Brazil in the 1960s, died on Feb.
Ms. von Stade plays Myrtle Bledsoe, a grande dame who, at 90, has outlived most of her family and most of the other residents of Egypt, Tex.
When it opened in 92923 it was a grande dame of seaside luxury; over the years, as St Kilda slid into disrepair, the Espy went with it.
To cap off the season, Stassi Schroeder's on-again, off-again boyfriend of four years, Patrick Meagher, shows up to sexually harass SUR grande dame Lisa Vanderpump. Repeatedly.
The 43rd edition of this grande dame of contemporary fairs, which previewed on Wednesday, saw the number of exhibitors in the Grand Palais increase to 186 from 173.
A two-mile promenade, built in the late 1800s, reveals the town's resort-ier roots, complete with a family-run fudge shop, coin arcades and grande-dame hotels.
"She truly was a grande dame in every sense of the work," said Linda Johnson Rice, CEO of Johnson Publishing Company, which formerly published Ebony and Jet magazines.
PARIS (Reuters) - Agnes Varda, the Belgian-born grande dame of French cinema and an influential force behind the New Wave movement, died at her home in Paris on Friday.
"Everything she does, she immerses herself in doing," said Sheila Nevins, the grande dame of documentary who, when she was president of HBO Documentary Films, was Ms. Pelosi's champion.
Heady from the unexpected intimacy with Colette we'd found during a weekend in Burgundy, this meal was the perfect way to fete this fascinating grande dame of French letters.
The film itself plays into the myth of the "generous" suicide by ending with Ally's apotheosis, showing her performing for a full, elegant hall, now a grande dame of stardom.
The group included Marjory Stoneman Douglas, the crusading grande dame of Everglades conservation; Native American tribes; hunters; newly formed environmental groups, and ultimately the administration of President Richard M. Nixon.
LOS ANGELES — Sheila Nevins, the grande dame of documentary film, who left HBO in 2017 after nearly 40 years, has joined MTV to start a nonfiction film and specials division.
Women's tennis has so much going for it: new stars from different continents, week-to-week suspense, and grande dame Serena Williams's ongoing quest for a 24th major singles title.
I know now that Emmanuel, the grande dame of the cathedral bells, which has marked so many events great and tragic — it tolled when the twin towers fell on Sept.
Avital, now a grande dame of literary studies, who Reitman alleges bragged to him of a "mafia"-like ability to make or break the careers of others, still feels persecuted.
That's the amount a couple would pay for eating at Arnaud's in New Orleans' French Quarter, which has been considered by some as the grande dame of Creole dining since 1918.
Terry Allen Kramer, the colorful Broadway producer who won five best-production Tony Awards in 16 years but was just as well known as the grande dame of Palm Beach, Fla.
Ms. Griscom, who would all but retire the title of best dressed at charity events, began modeling by posing for the fashion industry grande dame Eileen Ford while still in college.
The Hollywood grande dame has lived in Paris for six decades and outlasted most of her contemporaries, including her younger sister, actress Joan Fontaine, with whom she had a notoriously testy relationship.
Leah Chase, the 93-year-old grande dame of Dooky Chase's Restaurant in New Orleans, received a standing ovation upon appearing on stage in a wheelchair to accept a Lifetime Achievement award.
The open-air car in glossy black with red leather seats is New York City's official parade car and the grande dame of the 210,265 vehicles in the nation's largest municipal fleet.
No one goes bigger than the grande dame of Paris labels, and every season, Karl Lagerfeld and company commandeer the main space of the Grand Palais to build an enormous temple to Chanel.
Aileen Mehle, who titillated readers with her rapier wit for five decades as "Suzy," the glamorous, nationally syndicated grande dame of tabloid society gossip columnists, died on Friday at her home in Manhattan.
A grande dame of the grands magasins, owned by LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton (the luxury group that also owns Le Bon Marché), it closed in 2005 and has been undergoing extensive renovations.
Serena Williams, the glorious grande dame of tennis, noted that last year the United States Open — which offers women the same purse as the men — sold out the women's final before the men's.
Judge them, then, in decades to come, when Ms Ocasio-Cortez is either forgotten—or the grande dame of a Washington risen again from the waves of sea-level rise through monumental public works.
Liz Smith, the grande dame of New York's gossip pages, played down the juiciest bit of information about herself when promoting her memoir, "Natural Blonde," in the pages of New York magazine in 2000.
Pelosi winds Trump up when she drips condescension worthy of a Jane Austen grande dame, saying she will pray for the president or pleading for someone to stage an intervention with the poor soul.
LONDON (Reuters) - The grande dame of women's tennis, Venus Williams, strode to victory against a scampering Carla Suarez Navarro on Monday, beating the Spaniard 7-6(3) 6-4 to reach the Wimbledon quarter-finals.
Take them to the Jardins du Trocadéro to get the view shown above, and then pay a visit to the grande dame of cheesemaking, Marie Anne Cantin, for a follow-up picnic in the 7th.
Say "Maastricht" to anyone in a certain precinct of the art world and they will know you are talking about TEFAF Maastricht, the grande dame of art fairs, specializing in extremely high-end art and antiques.
WASHINGTON — For decades, she was the grande dame of the Grand Old Party, the white-haired, pearl-wearing, tart-tongued Republican matriarch and, in the words of one eulogist, the first lady of the Greatest Generation.
At a Baptist church in Richmond on a recent Sunday afternoon, Mr. Northam delivered brief remarks referring to lingering inequities at a ceremony in honor of Dorothy Height, a grande dame of the civil rights movement.
Robin Chandler Duke, a rags-to-riches grande dame who married an ambassador and became one of America's best known advocates for women by championing reproductive rights and international family planning, died in Charleston, S.C., on Saturday.
Artist and photographer Cindy Sherman is the grande dame of self-portraiture, making a career of casting herself as countless (mostly) female archetypes, from silver-screen sirens and historical figures to society mavens and birthday-party clowns.
At home, Fran Porter, the guild's 91-year-old grande dame, keeps a "stash" of threads and fabrics in neatly stacked plastic shoe boxes, and a notepad on her night stand to jot down concepts at any hour.
Hollywood grande dame Olivia de Havilland is suing the network and Murphy's production company over what she contends is an unauthorized and inaccurate portrayal of her in the TV series Feud: Bette and Joan, her lawyers announced Friday.
Book the Hotel Adlon Kempinski starting at $320 per nightThis five-star grande dame has a prime Berlin address, right on the famous Under den Linden boulevard and sits practically at the foot of the iconic Brandenburg Gate.
Yet she was the grande dame of restaurant royalty in New Orleans whose infighting and power struggles have long been the subject of gossip and intrigue in a city as dedicated to its food as any in America.
Though her role is really a composite of several jobs in publishing—she seems to combine marketing, publicity, packaging, and scouting in a single powerhouse—her character remains an accurate depiction of a certain type of industry grande dame.
Based on a play by the 19th-century Hungarian writer Ede Toth, it was cast with actors from Hungary's National Theater, among them the grande dame Mari Jaszai, playing the heart-rending role of the "undesirable" heroine's unjustly imprisoned mother.
Danielle Darrieux, the French actress and singer whose career of sophisticated film roles spanned eight decades and indelible incarnations as ingénue, coquette, femme fatale and grande dame, died on Tuesday at her home in Bois-le-Roi, France, south of Paris.
" She certainly made herself at home in the shabby old-world elegance of the late-20th century grande dame of a hotel, frequently joining a tattered collection of neighborhood eccentrics at the Palm Court, wearing, "the same old purple dress.
A grande dame with a rounded front porch embellished with fretwork, gingerbread trim and a fanciful wrought-iron railing, it was once part of a waterfront estate; today, much of the property has been sold and other homes built nearby.
His loss becomes the emotional engine of the mini-series, just as the original series was driven by the strain between Lorelai and her grande dame mother, Emily (Kelly Bishop), lingering from when Lorelai became pregnant with Rory at 16.
Inspired by Patrick Dennis's novel "Auntie Mame" and the subsequent Broadway play and film starring Rosalind Russell, it unfurled the freewheeling adventures of a flamboyant grande dame whose young nephew is taken along for a madcap coming-of-age ride.
Violet Gamart (Patricia Clarkson), the resident grande dame, has other ideas: She wants to transform the historic dwelling into an arts center, and prods her nephew, a member of Parliament, into sponsoring a bill that will lead to Florence's eviction.
Not until, say, an energetic Aunt Nora storms into town and insists on visiting the Statue of Liberty does a longtime New Yorker make a point of paying personal tribute to that grande dame — with or without an indulgent roll of the eyes.
The proliferation of mobile phones in the most populous U.S. city prompted the New York Public Service Commission to say it will add the area code 332 in 2017, years after 646 and 917 joined the grande dame of Manhattan area codes, 212.
Cheim & Read, for example, plans to bring works by Louise Bourgeois, the grande dame of 20th-century art; Andy Warhol; Jenny Holzer, an established conceptual artist; and Lynda Benglis, who was first recognized in the late 1960s for her minimalist and process art.
Lara Jean's retro fixation reaches its peak when she volunteers at Belleview, a retirement home with fortune tellers, posh soirees and a former Pan Am flight attendant named Stormy (Holland Taylor) lording over the palm-frond fantasia like a screwball grande dame.
Called by Mr. Eggers "the 'grande dame' of all Wagnerians" and an "ambassador and representative of the Wagner family," Ms. Lafferentz was the youngest of the composer's grandchildren, who included Wieland, Wolfgang and Friedelind, and was distinguished by her lack of artistic ambition.
Teddi's admission is light years ahead of the sexual outlook of a woman like RHOBH grande dame Lisa Vanderpump, who loves a wry sex joke and owns swans named "Hanky" and "Panky" but still waves the slut shaming Pantygate flag whenever she gets a chance.
The next day, sunning myself on the deck next to the Raya's quartet of thermal pools, I saw the same gaggle of older women, wearing big earrings and even bigger sunglasses, chatting, smoking and laughing with the grande dame of Panarea, Raya founder Myriam Beltrami.
Jayne Wrightsman, a benefactor of the arts and grande dame of New York society whose celebrated collections of decorative and fine arts surrounded her life with grandeur and became treasures of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, died on Saturday at her home in Manhattan.
The inaugural headliners include the soul and disco grande dame Patti LaBelle on Friday, the heartfelt synth-pop act Tegan and Sara on Saturday, and the Canadian singer Nelly Furtado on Sunday, with an eclectic roster of dance-floor-friendly artists rounding out the weekend.nycpride.
It has changed its bottles, but it is also returning to is roots: Marem is a re-creation of a scent made in 1914 for the Russian actress Alla Nazimova, the grande dame of the New York stage who was preparing to make her silent film debut.
The Weston, a concoction of a local gin and a violet liquor, arrived with a sidecar holding a chilled refill, a homage to the epic don't-have-more-than-one martini at the Musso & Frank Grill, a grande dame in Hollywood that still packs people in.
Claridge's in London, the Mayfair Art Deco grande dame, has a lovely unofficial service (they think of everything there) where if you approach the concierge, you can buy one of their square porcelain ashtrays painted with the hotel's signature red, blue and gold coat of arms.
It's hard to believe it's been 228 years since "She doesn't even go here!" entered the lexicon, but alas, Mean Girls is now a full-fledged teenager, and its star Lindsay Lohan is now a movie star-turned-grande dame of a Mykonos club with her own reality show.
In America, the primary held on April 19th crowned Hillary Clinton Queen of New York; supporters of Bernie Sanders face having to learn to Love the one they're with as, in a year of insurgency, an establishment grande dame moves inexorably towards the Democratic nomination for the presidency.
On a seventies talk show that the academics analyze—as it is performed live, for us—Vera is a mesmerizing grande dame, with an aura that hovers somewhere around late-career Nina Simone; she's proud of her accomplishments and pained by the limitations of the roles that defined her.
Another season of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills is in full swing, and this time our favorite grande dame of Villa Rosa (who has thus far excelled at stoking the flames of drama without getting caught in the crossfire) is at the very center of this season's #PuppyGate controversy.
This turns out to be more fraught than expected, especially once the venture catches the eye of town grande dame Violet Gamart (Patricia Clarkson, viciously cutting in the most elegant way), who seeks the historic premises for her own pet project, and does whatever she can to thwart Florence's ambitions.
Ratings for the grande dame of Hollywood award shows, broadcast on ABC, declined by roughly 8 percent from last year's telecast — which itself was considered a ratings failure — as 34.3 million viewers watched host Chris Rock deride the academy for its lack of diversity and "Spotlight" win the best picture trophy.
Earlier that year, Mr. Falwell and his wife, Becki, had stayed at the Fontainebleau — the grande dame of the Miami Beach hotel scene and a somewhat unlikely vacation spot for the chancellor of a university whose student code prohibited short skirts, coed dorm visits and sex outside of "biblically ordained" marriage.
LONDON — Patricia Knatchbull, a grande dame of Britain's titled elite, whose life embraced a fabled childhood between two world wars and deep personal tragedy after her father and a teenage son were killed in a bomb attack at sea, died on Tuesday at her home in England, in Mersham, Kent.
But where was the grande dame I'd read about, the opulent "watering hole" once known as "La Reine des Plages" (the queen of beaches), which attracted the crowned heads of Europe, not to mention Mozaffar ed-Din Shah Kadjar, ruler of Persia, who spent the month of August here in 603?
As a result, it was no real surprise that the duchess chose Chanel, the house widely seen as the grande dame of Parisian fashion, as she posed for photographs with her husband on Saturday with the Eiffel Tower in the background and with well-wishers waving the Union Jack nearby.
"If Dr. Joyce Brothers is the grande dame of all psychologists represented in the media, with her syndicated newspaper column and her jokey walk-ons in sitcoms and movies, then Dr. Grant ("Life is not a dress rehearsal") is the true mother of all radio shrinks," The New York Times said in 1999.
The inaugural headliners include the soul and disco grande dame Patti LaBelle on Friday, the heartfelt synth-pop act Tegan and Sara (featuring the identical twins Tegan and Sara Quin) on Saturday, and the Canadian singer Nelly Furtado on Sunday, with an eclectic roster of dance-floor-friendly artists rounding out the weekend.
" It's a story that Ms. O'Brien, 20123, the grande dame of Irish literature, recounts in her memoir, "Country Girl," and it's an ambition that many believe she has achieved, including Philip Roth, who put it this way in an email: "She is among the handful of most accomplished living writers in the English language.
Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps issued illustrated texts in black and white, like "Popo and Fifina: Children of Haiti" (1932) with images by E. Simms Campbell, and Carter G. Woodson's black-run publishing house devoted itself to children's literature, offering texts like "The Picture-Poetry Book" (1935), illustrated by the grande dame of African-American painting, Lois Mailou Jones.
The contemporary art scene in Buenos Aires is booming, with the arteBA art fair getting better every year, and plenty of galleries to check out (Ruth Benzecar and Nora Fisch, in particular, have interesting shows), but the grande dame of the art scene is still the MALBA (admission, 280 pesos) with its focus on Latin American art.
Here, Mr. Fulk, the mastermind of Sean Parker's lavish wedding, among other spectacles, imagined a dining room for a grande dame who had outlived three husbands and was enjoying her solitude until she was visited by several escapees from a local zoo, including a monkey, a zebra and a polar bear (see the hand-painted de Gournay wallpaper for details).
On Wednesday, the museum announced that the arts benefactor and grande dame of New York society has left more than 375 works to the Met in a bequest that includes gifts to the departments of Drawings and Prints, European Paintings, and European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, as well as to the Department of Asian Art, the Department of Islamic Art and the Watson Library.
The distinguished roll call of talent includes the stage veteran Eleanor Bron, who purrs her way through the part of a grande dame with a habit of forever misplacing her husband, and Emma Fielding — fondly remembered from the 1993 National Theater premiere of Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia" — as a drolly expressive house guest who pronounces that there are only four "ideal men" in London. Mrs.
As grande dame proprietor of the Bangala ("The Bungalow"), a chicly funky 18-year-old hotel housed in a converted men's club (now one of the few places for tourists to stay in the area), she is also among the few Chettiars who has found a way to live in her family's home most of the year, though she also keeps a large residence in Chennai.
With the help of their teacher/songwriter Sim D' Souza, school co-founder, Sarah DuPont, and an international super team made up of film maker Jon Fine, Grammy winner and world renowned grande dame Angelique Kidjo, and musicians spanning from Brooklyn to Benin, the children have given us a video and song both important and, frankly, banging to be used in combatting of one the world's great killers, malaria.
Passing through the museum's other offerings, like a top floor showcase of early 20th-century porn films, or its downstairs bar wallpapered with photomontages from New York City's orgiastic nightclubs of the 1970s and '80s, it's impossible not to wonder what Fini, the ultimate unconventional European grande dame, would make of her retrospective inside a venue called The Museum of Sex, an institution whose very name suggests that America has quarantined human desire inside an archival building, placing sex permanently in the past tense.
" She's also a little vain, and Wolitzer pokes delicious fun at the foibles of a career speechifier in her grande-dame phase who can't quite turn off the well-modulated profundity, whether she's out at a bar with her colleagues—"The world is so enormous, but if you have places where they know what you like to drink, then all is well "—or on her way to the salon to get her highlights touched up: "If I added up all the time I've spent in such places, I could probably have traveled the world.

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