Dash, Countess, the nom de plume of the Viscountess de Saint-Mars, a French novelist, born at Poitiers; in straits for a living, took desperately to writing; treated of aristocratic life and its hollow artificialities and immoralities (1804‒1872).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Dasent, Sir George Webbe * Dashkoff