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
When she continues: "Now she's older and feeble as well, I carry on for the mademoiselle;" they take the hint with all the alacrity of the class of 1917-18.
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
"Eef mademoiselles, your aunts, should get to hear—" "Oh, I won't tell."
From Mary Minds Her Business by Weston, George
The mademoiselles whom we meet will probably have their own sweethearts.
From The Mischief Maker by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
"To what am I indebted for the honour of this visit, mademoiselles?"
From My Strangest Case by Boothby, Guy
At 300 meters, neither slackening nor quickening their punishing pace, they passed the mesdemoiselles.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Come, come, mesdemoiselles, we must work and not idle so; here's a wedding dress that must be done to-morrow; Madame Dumanchon has promised it."
From San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Kock, Charles Paul de
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 Brontë, Charlotte
"Please follow me, mesdemoiselles, you must crawl along here."
From In the Reign of Terror by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
In Paris, as in London, troops of acquaintance came forward to receive 'Madame Maria et mesdemoiselles ses sœurs,' as they used to be announced.
From A Book of Sibyls Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen by Ritchie, Anne Thackeray
