dameship

noun

dameship

noun

Etymology From dame + -ship.

1

Damehood.

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;1886, William Maestravick Stenhouse, Poems, Songs, and Sonnets, page 213:

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