beldam

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beldam (plural beldams)

  1. Alternative spelling of beldame
    • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 2: Nestor]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, [], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 25:
      Had Pyrrhus not fallen by a beldam's hand in Argos or Julius Caesar not been knifed to death? They are not to be thought away.

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