text: # beldame
  
  ## Anglais
  
  ### Nom commun
  
  beldame
  
  * Vieille femme.
     * Why, so I would if I could ; but Justice is an old hobbling beldame, and I can't get her to keep pace with Generosity for the soul of me. — (Sheridan, The School of Scandal, Aubier Flammarion, 1969, p. 210)
  