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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 663 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BELDAM (like " belsire.," grandfather, from the Fr. See also:bel, See also:good, expressing relationship; cf. the Fr. belle-See also:mere, See also:mother-in-See also:law, and See also:dame, in Eng. See also:form " See also:dam," mother) , strictly a grandmother or remote ancestress, and so an old woman; generally used contemptuously as meaning an old See also:hag.

End of Article: BELDAM (like " belsire.," grandfather, from the Fr. bel, good, expressing relationship; cf. the Fr. belle-mere, mother-in-law, and dame, in Eng. form " dam," mother)

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