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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
grandame

c.1200, "a grandmother; an old woman," from grand (adj.) + dame. Compare Anglo-French graund dame. Contracted form grannam attested from 1590s.

Usage examples of "grandame".

And in the midst thereof did horror dwell,And darkenesse dredd, that neuer viewed day,Like to the balefull house of lowest hell,In which old Styx her aged bones alway,Old Styx the Grandame of the Gods, doth lay.

At the mention of eggs, Ruggedo turned quite pale under his wrinkled gray skin and, as Peter looked at the two in perplexity, Scrapper returned bringing an old Quilty grandame with him.