1. Vivienne Westwood is the grande dame of British fashion.

2. This was not an ordinary room but rather the boudoir of a grande dame.

3. Guests return time and again to experience the awesome natural surrounds and enjoy the atmospheric interiors of La Grande Dame of the Arolla

4. Silverman is President of American Atheists, the organization founded in 1963 by the grande dame of American atheism, Madalyn Murray O’Hair (1919–1995)