grandam

[ gran-duh m, -dam ]

/ ˈgræn dəm, -dæm /

a grandmother.

an old woman.

Also gran·dame

[gran-deym, -duh m] /ˈgræn deɪm, -dəm/.

Origin of grandam

1175–1225; Middle English gra(u)ndame < Old French grant dame. See grand, dame

The grandam dropped him a pretty curtsy, the while the other stood with drooping and averted head.

The Red Tavern |Charles Raymond Macauley
If the soul of my grandam might fitly inhabit a bird, might not a Fairy ruefully inhabit the person of my grandam?

Lore of Proserpine |Maurice Hewlett
See, here is my grandam coming with various things for us; and I warrant me you shall find some gingerbread amongst them.

Judith Shakespeare |William Black
Grandam Sutherland had but just awakened, and was blinking at the two after a confused fashion.

The Red Tavern |Charles Raymond Macauley

Then goes the musicker to my grandam, bidding the old Duchess rise up again one hour after she had sought her bed.

The Fifth Queen Crowned |Ford Madox Ford

grandam

/ (ˈɡrændəm, -dæm) /

an archaic word for grandmother

C13: from Anglo-French grandame, from Old French grand- + dame lady, mother