mademoiselle
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Madame or mademoiselle, the française of life-style literature represents a very limited idea of the Parisienne.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 19, 2019
A maid carries away the breakfast tray of a pretty young mademoiselle lounging in bed behind her.
From New York Times ● Aug. 14, 2014
As she lost consciousness she recalled the doctor saying: "Au revoir, monsieur," and when she awoke, she heard: "Bonjour, mademoiselle."
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2013
A warning that the general was not the only one who would be in a fix if their version was sung decided them to make the unkissable mademoiselle the heroine.
From Time Magazine Archive
“If you could see, mademoiselle, you’d have seen the evacuation orders. They’ve locked the city gates.”
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
Linux lads and Mac mademoiselles, your time has come to play Inscryption!
From The Verge ● Jun. 23, 2022
There may have been a subtle throwback to the those well-brought up “bon chic bon genre” mademoiselles, before the 1968 Paris student uprising.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2011
I flew downstairs and found not only children in every shape and form, but mothers in big hats and trailing skirts, and Frauleins in small hats and skirts curtailed, mademoiselles and nannies.
From The Professional Aunt by Mary C.E. Wemyss
"To what am I indebted for the honour of this visit, mademoiselles?"
From My Strangest Case by Guy Boothby
The mademoiselles whom we meet will probably have their own sweethearts.
From The Mischief Maker by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
At 300 meters, neither slackening nor quickening their punishing pace, they passed the mesdemoiselles.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now, mesdemoiselles," he said, "it is time for you to go to your hiding-place, for it will take us nearly half an hour to close it up again.
From In the Reign of Terror by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
I never seem to get on with my work, and yet I try hard enough, and Kami says——" "'Continuez, mesdemoiselles.
From The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition by Rudyard Kipling
The Cinderella-like plot of School is taken from the Aschenbrödel of Roderick Benedix: the school examination was suggested by a French vaudeville, En classe, mesdemoiselles!
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 90, June, 1875 by Various
Come, come, mesdemoiselles, we mustn't talk so much.
From San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Charles Paul de Kock
