dame vs earl

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. 

earl

noun
  • A British or Irish nobleman next in rank above a viscount and below a marquess; equivalent to a European count. A female using the style is termed a countess. 

  • Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Tanaecia. Other butterflies in this genus are called counts and viscounts. 

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