(n.) A lady; madam; mistress; -- the title given a lady in Italy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two decades after Donna Tartt soared to literary stardom with her debut The Secret History, the reclusive author is set to release her third novel this autumn.
(2) Donna Sinclair, head of Options 4 Change, a charity working with black youths "I went to Brixton the morning after and the smell of burning, and what you could see told a huge story.
(3) On board Air Force One on the flight from Washington to New Orleans, Donna Brazile, the Democratic strategist, New Orleans native and former member of the Louisiana Recovery Authority, told reporters that Bush had gotten a bad rap for his handling of the recovery.
(4) · The Zandra Rhodes Fashion and Textile Museum in Bermondsey, London SE1, which contains works by Ossie Clark as well as 3,000 of Rhodes's own designs, is open Tuesday to Sunday, 11am to 5:45pm No: Alice Rawsthorn On a trip to Paris, the New York fashion designer Donna Karan was dragged off to the Picasso Museum by her late husband, Stephen Weiss.
(5) New ITV1 series Marco's Kitchen Burnout features Marco Pierre White putting three different celebrities through their paces in a busy London restaurant kitchen each week – starting on Friday with Kelvin MacKenzie, Tupele Dorgu and Donna Air.
(6) But the deeply idiosyncratic Octopuss font on the station sign is a reminder that ‘77 was also the year of Donna Summer’s I Feel Love and Saturday Night Fever: the end of the world may have been nigh, but one corner of Berlin was boogying the night away to uphold western civilisation.
(7) Though she will be remembered for disco classics such as Love to Love You Baby and I Feel Love, Donna Summer , who has died of cancer aged 63, notched up many achievements in a career lasting more than 40 years.
(8) The open letter from “Authors United” – signed by writers including Donna Tartt, Stephen King, Philip Pullman and Malcolm Gladwell – called on Amazon to stop blocking or delaying sales of Hachette books while negotiating a new distribution deal with the publisher.
(9) Written and directed by Gillian Robespierre , Obvious Child tells the story of Donna, a standup comedian in Brooklyn whose chaotic life is a source of bemusement to her parents, who are unable to believe that their twentysomething daughter doesn’t even know how to do her taxes (“Nobody knows how to do their taxes!” Donna retorts, not wholly incorrectly.)
(10) In it, her character, Donna Stern, navigates a break up, a flailing career, an unplanned pregnancy, and, ultimately, an abortion.
(11) Toby Young called her a "petulant prima donna" in the Telegraph, while Observer critic Robert McCrum wrote that, as "an ebullient and pioneering feminist publisher from the 1970s [it's] hardly a surprise that she should find herself unresponsive to Roth's lifelong subject: the adventures of the ordinary sexual [American] man".
(12) Donna Wood, an NHS nurse who volunteered along with Cafferkey to work in Sierra Leone in 2014, said she would never have put her country, her family or herself in such danger.
(13) We understand that the culture of the largest police force in the country cannot change overnight,” said NYCLU Executive Director Donna Lieberman .
(14) Popular technologies like wind and solar are having their support axed, whilst the more-unpopular-than-ever fracking industry keeps getting preferential treatment.” Friends of the Earth senior energy campaigner, Donna Hume, said: “It’s little surprise that the more people find out about the risks of fracking, the more they oppose it.” The latest version of the Department of Energy and Climate Change’s (Decc) public attitudes tracking survey, which has been running for three years, has also temporarily dropped polling on public support for renewable energy.
(15) Lara Flynn Boyle The break-out star of the show, who played Donna Hayward, enjoyed a patchy career in film (Wayne's World, Men in Black II), later returning to TV to appear in long-running legal drama The Practice, as well as Las Vegas and Huff.
(16) She gets real about bodies In Obvious Child , Jenny Slate's character Donna is frank about her ladyparts; her first stand up act begins with, "I used to hide what my vagina does to my underpants."
(17) Back in the UK, things went on as before until August, when the Elastica singer parted company with him and Donna Matthews in the space of a single traumatic weekend.
(18) The call for a UK moratorium by senior cross party MPs is a further blow to an industry still reeling from the ban on fracking in New York State in December due to health risks,” said Friends of the Earth climate campaigner Donna Hume.
(19) The statement – which was signed by four mosque leaders, Portsmouth city council’s chief executive David Williams and leader Donna Jones and Hampshire constabulary’s Supt Will Schofield and Ch Insp Alison Heydari – says the community is united in its condemnation of hatred, violence and racism and of Isis.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Donna Fenn surrounded by Remade in Britain designs Green crush: upcycling and vintage marketplace Remade in Britain There is no such thing as rubbish, just a paucity of imagination.
Lady
Definition:
(n.) A woman who looks after the domestic affairs of a family; a mistress; the female head of a household.
(n.) A woman having proprietary rights or authority; mistress; -- a feminine correlative of lord.
(n.) A woman to whom the particular homage of a knight was paid; a woman to whom one is devoted or bound; a sweetheart.
(n.) A woman of social distinction or position. In England, a title prefixed to the name of any woman whose husband is not of lower rank than a baron, or whose father was a nobleman not lower than an earl. The wife of a baronet or knight has the title of Lady by courtesy, but not by right.
(n.) A woman of refined or gentle manners; a well-bred woman; -- the feminine correlative of gentleman.
(n.) A wife; -- not now in approved usage.
(n.) The triturating apparatus in the stomach of a lobster; -- so called from a fancied resemblance to a seated female figure. It consists of calcareous plates.
(a.) Belonging or becoming to a lady; ladylike.
() The day of the annunciation of the Virgin Mary, March 25. See Annunciation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lady Gaga is not the first big music star to make a new album available early to mobile customers.
(2) A 27-year-old lady presented with history of discomfort in the throat and difficulty in swallowing for two weeks.
(3) It’s going to affect everybody.” The six songs from Rebel Heart released thus far do not shy away from controversy: one, Illuminati, mocks the various conspiracy theories on the internet that implicate a variety of entertainers – including Jay-Z and Lady Gaga – in membership of a shadowy ruling elite.
(4) Liekens, who has been called the "leading lady in sexology", has written several books including The Vagina Book, The Sex Bible and Her Penis Book.
(5) Given how Bank forecasts have been all over the shop, it is possible that the Old Lady's spreadsheet wizards could scupper Mr Carney's plans by spying a speck of price pressure and panicking about it turning into a giant inflationary boulder.
(6) His words earned a stinging rebuke from first lady Michelle Obama , but at a Friday rally in North Carolina he said of one accuser, Jessica Leeds: “Yeah, I’m gonna go after you.
(7) Given his background, Boyle says, growing up in a council house near Bury, with his two sisters (one a twin) and his strict and hard-working parents (his mum worked as a dinner lady at his school), he should by rights have been a gritty social realist, but that tradition never appealed to him.
(8) --A fit of acute depersonnalisation in a young lady was suppressed within eight days with the administration of 1 g p.o.
(9) A 43-year-old lady was hospitalized due to easy fatiguability in the legs during exercise, and for evaluation of an abnormal shadow in the chest X-ray, and hypertension.
(10) The accident on 10 April 2010, killed the president, first lady and dozens of senior officials, in the worst Polish air disaster since the second world war.
(11) An intimate account of her last hours was given on Monday by Lady (Carla) Powell, the Italian wife of Thatcher's former diplomatic adviser Lord Powell, who had visited her often in her declining years, and whose house outside Rome the former prime minister had visited on several occasions.
(12) Schools should adopt whole-school approaches to building emotional resilience – everyone from the dinner ladies to the headteacher needs to understand how to help young people to cope with what the modern world throws at them.
(13) The prime minister told the Radio Times he was a fan of the "brilliant" US musical drama Glee, preferred Friends to The West Wing, and chose Lady Gaga over Madonna, and Cheryl Cole over Simon Cowell.
(14) Ladies and gentlemen, please put your hands together for Charles Antaki, he's here all week, try the Imodium.
(15) Contemporary songs - by Adele, Lady Gaga, La Roux - are simulacra of those produced in the 60s, 70s and 80s.)
(16) "I have just seen a piece of straw flying over, which the hon lady is attempting to clutch at!"
(17) He could say, ‘Ladies and gentlemen, today we have totally defeated Isis,’ and it wouldn’t sound good, OK, all right?
(18) The government, too, is keen to strike a conciliatory note, at least compared with the strident tones of the Iron Lady's day.
(19) As Bernard Levin noted in 1977 when she was playing Lady Macbeth and Lady Plyant in Congreve's The Double Dealer at the National: "She is tiny.
(20) A case of an aggressive angiomyxoma of the vulva in a 38-year-old lady is reported.