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mesdames

[mey-dahm, -dam, mey-dam] / meɪˈdɑm, -ˈdæm, meɪˈdam /
NOUN
a title of address
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NOUN
a woman in charge of an establishment
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NOUN
a woman in charge of a brothel
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Mesdames et messieurs, Mademoiselle Watson will serve first.

From The Guardian • May 31, 2018

To say that women like as Mesdames Hobson, Gund and Lebowitz are not its usual subjects is something of an understatement.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2015

"I love it at Monaco at the moment," Mbokani said, lurking behind David Niven dressed in a white tuxedo and saying "Mesdames at messieurs, les jeux sont faits" in a clipped voice.

From The Guardian • Oct. 28, 2010

The jurors also gazed at the Mesdames Sinclair, the defendant's wife and mother.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Assemblies that are most frequented by Foreigners, are those of Mesdames Corsini, the Pope’s Nieces, the Duke of Santo Bueno, and the Countess of Bolognetti.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von



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