† good-dame Sc. and north. Obs.
[See good D 2 a.]
A grandmother.
| c 1425 Wyntown Cron. iii. iii. 167 Hyr gudame lufyde Eneas; Off Affryk hale scho Lady was. 1483 Cath. Angl. 167/2 A Gudame (A. Gude Dame), auia. 1508 Dunbar Poems v. 1 My Gudame wes a gay wif, bot scho wes rycht gend. a 1575 Diurn. Occurr. (Bannatyne Club) 344 Our souerane lordis gudame of good memorie. 1609 Skene Reg. Maj., Stat. Robt. I, 24 The complener sall haue the briefe of recognition be reason of the death of his gudschir, and gudame, as of his father, or his mother. |