I had been following a grisette and a grande dame, who perhaps were not worth so much notice as this poor child; I had passed the evening making a fool of myself, and I could certainly devote an hour to a worthy action.
I give you my word, reader, that I should have made much more rapid progress with a grande dame or a grisette.
I heard the rumbling of cars; I was near the mountains which all the women ascend--the grande dame and the working girl, the milliner and the modest laundress, the kept woman and the little schoolgirl.
Without its help he could never be freed from his burden of debt, and united to the grande dame of his fancy, who must of necessity be posed in elegant toilette, on a suitable background of costly brocades and objects of art.
There was always something of the grande dame in her.
Things had arrived at this crisis when Casimir's mother, Madame Dudevant, who had all the manners of a grande dame, decided to pay Sophie-Victoire an official visit.
The grandmother was, if not a typical grande dame, at least a typical elegant woman of the latter half of the eighteenth century.
In her air and manner is the rare and happy mixture of la grande dame et la femme aimable, without the slightest shade of affectation.
The fan of some grande dame de la cour touches the diamond-mounted étui of the wife of some financier, who would have given half her diamonds to enter the circle in which she who once owned this fan found more ennui than amusement.
Truly, the training of the Grande Dame progressed rapidly, and the results promised to be fearfully complete.
And I may not demand a grande dame's matter-of-course reserve of one who two or three weeks ago was serving behind a counter.
But when I saw that in between you had become a grande dame, and how devoted you were to Walter--you kept talking of him--I lost my last hopes.
I have come to you at the recommendation of a friend of both of us, who prepared you for this visit," she began, inwardly rejoiced to be able once again to play the grande dame.
She has only got to marry some grocer or other tradesman, and she will be considered a grande dame at once.
The absence of all serious mental qualities was cleverly disguised by the mask of a grande dame; but I doubt whether it was anything else but a mask.
But can a grande dame, as she is, ever have too much dignity of the soul?
It was all of a great pleasure to me except that I did not like very well to be so distinguished by a young man, which made the French grande dame in me to shrink.
And yet with it all she is grande dame, the little pleasure-seeking Duchess, and she wears her title right royally in spite of her vagaries.
She was the grande dame; his history was sealed behind those unfathomable eyes.
But the house was not what I wanted to tell you about; it was the grande dame within, who played the indifferent hostess.
The grande dame and "gracious baroness" pose was whistled down the wind.
One does not expect the manners of a grande damefrom anyone who a few months ago was serving behind a counter.
He looked at once plain and distinguished, and in the quizzical eyes and beetling eyebrows there was an unmistakable likeness to the grande dame standing by Claire's side.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grande dame" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
