Meanings
- uncountableThe quality of being a lady; ladyhood.
It constitutes, as it were, the dandydom, the fine-ladydom, the ornamental portion of the denomination to which it belongs; the ribbons, and false flowers, and tinsel, and spangles, and gimcracks of the old lady's cap.
1858, The Rambler, page 1911 more example
Though all the servants knew of my rejecting the state of ladydom, the less familiar pair rejected me outright because of that attitude. Only a mad person, they believed, required convincing to become superior in English society […]
2018, H. C. Turk, Black Body
Origin
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ladydom. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ladydom
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