halidame

English

halidame (plural halidames)

Alternative form of halidom
- 1764 December 24 (indicated as 1765), Onuphrio Muralto, translated by William Marshal [pseudonyms; Horace Walpole], chapter V, in The Castle of Otranto, […], London: […] Tho[mas] Lownds […], →OCLC, page 170:
  [C]an your Highneſs keep a ſecret? if it ſhould ever come out of your lips⸺it ſhall not, it ſhall not: Cried Manfred—nay, but ſwear, your Highneſs—by my halidame, if it ſhould ever be known that I ſaid it⸺[…]