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
Change the fraulein, as Hollywood often does, to a mademoiselle?
From Time Magazine Archive
But monsieur could not wait even a ‘flash of time’, and in the middle of the speech departed to find mademoiselle himself.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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
"To what am I indebted for the honour of this visit, mademoiselles?"
From My Strangest Case by Guy Boothby
"Eef mademoiselles, your aunts, should get to hear—" "Oh, I won't tell."
From Mary Minds Her Business by George Weston
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
"Please follow me, mesdemoiselles, you must crawl along here."
From In the Reign of Terror by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
"Go below, mesdemoiselles," the captain of the lugger said as soon as they had put foot on the deck.
From In the Reign of Terror by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
I had heard hundreds of such little minced, docked, dry phrases, from the pursed-up coral lips of a score of self-possessed, self-sufficing misses and mesdemoiselles.
From Villette by Charlotte Brontë
I learned this morning that mesdemoiselles were to-day to be brought before the Tribunal, and we filled the hall with women and two or three score of sailors.
From In the Reign of Terror by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
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