Sentence examples for fancy dame from inspiring English sources
On the outskirts of downtown Los Angeles, a lovelorn young gentleman lets an opportunity to chat with a fancy dame slip.
"The rise of the euro, sky-high retail prices and the idea of recycling — those are some of the things that drive customers right to our door," said Laura Fluhr, an owner of Michael's, the 54-year-old grande dame of fancy resale stores on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
Ms. Shannon shows her greatest specificity in sketching grandes dames with fancy names (Nashira, Pleione, Alsafi — from mythology, astronomy and other classical sources, with a strong emphasis on Arabic).
The paintings are portraits of fashionable dames, with rich jewels and fancy headdresses, who were probably the aristocratic owners of the palace.
The stories echo Damon Runyon one moment, the Brothers Grimm the next … "Of all the dames I fancied / She's the only one I loved.
This time around, Dame Edna speculated about roles she fancied.
If any orchestra can pull it off, it's the Boston Symphony, which, since its inception, in 1881, has carried itself like a grande dame of Back Bay who invites both fancy and scruffy people to her parties.
Just as she seems set to take off on an impromptu flight of patriotic fancy to match her sparkling Commonwealth Star frock and its Sydney Opera House shoulder pads, Dame Edna stops and looks at me earnestly through her diamante-studded spectacles.
