What is "grandmama"

Usage examples of "grandmama".

Judith had adored her until it had become obvious to her that her mama and papa found Grandmama a trial and something of an embarrassment.

Since Aunt Louisa, Uncle George, and Grandmama must have been well aware of the fact that Lady Beamish was their neighbor, Judith gathered that she was the intended recipient of this startling information.

She had overheard Grandmama arranging to call on Lady Beamish tomorrow afternoon while all the houseguests were arriving at Harewood.

Lord Rannulf meanwhile was making his bow to Grandmama and then to Judith, murmuring her name as he did so.

She hurried to her room after Tillie had been summoned to settle Grandmama in her bed for an afternoon sleep, changed quickly into one of the few dresses that had not yet been subjected to alteration, an old lemon-colored cotton that she was attached to, threw off her cap and replaced it with her own straw bonnet, and hastened down the back stairs, which she had discovered during several errands to the kitchen in the past few days.

She curtsied and tried not to remember the last time she had seen himoutside the door of her bedchamber with Grandmama, giving her advice on how to treat her burn and looking at her with genuine concern in his eyes before striding off to hasten the arrival of a servant with the salve she had asked for.

But her grandmother had appeared at the drawing room door with Aunt Effingham, and Grandmama had heard her.

Your grandmama did not take one, but I am quite sure she must wish to try them.

I might search out your steward, Grandmama, and see if he has the time to take me around the home farm and explain a thing or two to me.

Grandpapa must indeed have been besotted with Grandmama, she thought, smiling, to have given her so many and such ostentatious jewels, many of the glittering pieces almost indistinguishable from one another.

They sat there, comfortable together until Lady Beamish found them and bore them off to the rose arbor after persuading Grandmama that the air was warm and the breeze really close to being nonexistent.

I promised you I would seriously consider the girl, Grandmama, and I will.

I daresay all will be explained to Grandmama and Uncle George within the next few days.

In what way was she different from Grandmama, who had not even had proof of her innocence when she wrote this letter?

He was a soldier and a sir, not a my lord, so Grandmama would be unhappy.