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Definition of Stepdames
1. stepdame [n] - See also: stepdame
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stepdames
Literary usage of Stepdames
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books in the English by John Payne Collier (1865)
"... and elder brothers, For children that have lost their mothers, Or be injured
by stepdames might ; And Sonnes that lost their births right, ..."
2. Shakespeare's Ovid: Being Arthur Golding's Translation of the Metamorphoses by Ovid, Arthur Golding, William Henry Denham Rouse (1904)
"... he cald to mynd 310 „ He did determine „ He full determind LINES RECAST. I.
167-8 Ed. i. The stepdames fell their husbands sonnes with poyson do ..."
3. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... vpon his head From out the Tombe that brought the Boy abed, A proofe that
stepdames hate hath neuer end. АО AINE. С'; i.л i) was the sonne of frowning ..."
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