Meanings of damehood in English

The damehood awarded to the classicist Mary Beard is likely to prove more popular.

Another retail battle won; another step closer to damehood for TV's least throttle-worthy makeover mandarin.

Last year a former Manchester headteacher, Jean Else, became the first woman to have her damehood annulled.

Sir Andy was asked if his esteemed teammate should get an honorary damehood if Team SerAndy win Wimbledon.

Historian and Cambridge University professor Dame Mary Beard tweeted she was "hugely pleased" to be honoured with a damehood.

Awards include a damehood for nursing pioneer Prof Elizabeth Anionwu, and a knighthood for Cambridge chemist and DNA expert Prof Shankar Balasubramanian.

Angelina Jolie wore a Ralph & Russo suit to Buckingham Palace when she was presented with her honorary damehood by the Queen.

Corlett passed away on Saturday night - 12 days shy of her 90th birthday - without that damehood.

The awards also include a damehood for model Lesley Lawson, better known as Twiggy, one of the defining faces of the swinging 1960s.

Tony Abbot bringing back knighthoods and damehoods, also the proposed changes to race hate laws.

First came the Damehood then the Halberg Award for Coach of the Year and a Sport New Zealand leadership award.

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