doyenne

Of course, there are many things my fantasy doyenne is not.

She has been described as the "doyenne of family lawyers".

No one else had bothered to visit the aging doyenne of Mexican art in person.

A 90-year-old woman recalls what she saw as the doyenne of a Maine summer retreat.

This 230-room doyenne of Montreal hotels is old, and proud to be that way.

Possessed with vision and a will for hard work, she came to conquer that city, became its doyenne.

"She traveled widely and was the doyenne of society in the state capital.

But then, she was the doyenne "the Hollywood wait".

It is often called La Doyenne which means "the oldest".

Among other things, she was the doyenne of the theatrical entrepreneurs in the revitalized city.

But the doyenne of daytime TV, herself a working woman, did not seem sympathetic.

The place was welcoming, even if its doyenne wasn't.

She, as doyenne of the family, expressed her views in gentle and straightforward suggestions.

La Doyenne, the oldest Classic, was first held in 1892.

A startling biography of the British homemaking doyenne, who died at age 28 in 1865.

She often played a willful woman of means or a polished, high-society doyenne.

Now Elizabeth Post is about to step down as the doyenne of propriety.

But last July, the dowager doyenne, then 104, returned to the papers, this time to the news sections.

"It's so difficult for me," she had sighed, "now that I am doyenne of the diplomatic corps."

As opening night approaches, the would-be doyenne is serene, befitting her name.

But like her role model, Ms. Romaine is a doyenne of the arts.

She is considered the "doyenne" of Irish literature.

Nothing could stop him, it seemed, until he ran up against the young Emily Post, years before she became the nation's etiquette doyenne.

Paula Cooper, the doyenne of downtown dealers, is more iffy about the term.

Imperfect, like a film doyenne with her latest face-lift.