dameship

English

Etymology

dame +‎ -ship

Noun

dameship (plural dameships)

  1. Damehood.
    • 1886, William Maestravick Stenhouse, Poems, Songs, and Sonnets, page 213:
      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;

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