dame vs donna

dame

noun
  • Usually capitalized as Dame: a title equivalent to Sir for a female knight. 

  • In traditional pantomime: a melodramatic female often played by a man in drag. 

  • A matron at a school, especially Eton College. 

  • A queen. 

verb
  • To make a dame. 

donna

noun
  • A lady, especially a noblewoman; the title given to a lady in Italy. 

How often have the words dame and donna occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )