What is the mistress of a family in common life, or the mistress of a common school; as, a dame's school. In the dame's classes at the village school. Emerson called?
dame — The mistress of a family in common life, or the mistress of a common school; as, a dame's school. In the dame's classes at the village school. Emerson. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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