beldame
- n an ugly evil-looking old woman
- n a woman of advanced age
- Onto the platform sweeps "the richest woman in the world," a flamboyant beldame whose effects include a wooden leg, a pair of eunuchs, a caged panther and an empty coffin.
- She can also effortlessly slip in and out of Joycean narrative: 'Ah,' cries the sad beldame, transfixed n grotesque crucifixion upon the perambulator, stabbing at herself with a .
- If he broke the vow, the beldame said, for nine generations no Lambton would die in his bed.