Lexicographical Neighbors of Grandames
Literary usage of Grandames
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Letters from Europe by David L. Bartlett (1886)
"The quaint little baby-carts were under the trees and watched, when guarded at
all, by ancient grandames, knitting, or comfortable-looking house-dogs. ..."
2. The Arthur of the English Poets by Howard Maynadier (1907)
"His Iseult tells her children the \) tale of Merlin and Vivian as one which she "
gleaned from Breton grandames, when a child. ..."
3. The Borough of Stoke-upon-Trent, in the Commencement of the Reign of by John Ward (1843)
"Our grandames doe say " that theire grandames did delight to tell what it had
been, and how "well it was counted off before theire daye; althof they say ..."
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