halidame

English

Noun

halidame (plural halidames)

  1. Alternative form of halidom
    • 1764, “Onuphrio Muralto”, translated by William Marshal [pseudonym; Horace Walpole], The Castle of Otranto, […], Dublin: […] J. Hoey, […], published 1765, →OCLC, page 125:
      […] can your Highneſs keep a ſecret? if it ſhould ever come out of your lips———it ſhall not, it ſhall not: Cried Manfred———nay, but ſwear, your Highneſs———by my halidame, if it ſhould ever be known that I ſaid it […]
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