dameship
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- Damehood.
- 1886, William Maestravick Stenhouse, Poems, Songs, and Sonnets, page 213:
- Such sentence and the dameship's cool conceit Roused in the other a maternal heat, Who answered that her daughter was as good As any lordling of her dameship's brood;