Beldam
.An old woman; literally, a grandmother. The French also use bel age for old age.
“Old men and beldames in the streets
Do prophesy upon it dangerously.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.