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
Roughly speaking, the song had a heroine—a "mademoiselle from Armentieres," to whom the song was dedicated.
From Time Magazine Archive
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“But what has mademoiselle to do with it? I don’t care for the fairy: you said it was mademoiselle you would take to the moon?”
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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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
The mademoiselles whom we meet will probably have their own sweethearts.
From The Mischief Maker by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
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
"Eef mademoiselles, your aunts, should get to hear—" "Oh, I won't tell."
From Mary Minds Her Business by George Weston
At 300 meters, neither slackening nor quickening their punishing pace, they passed the mesdemoiselles.
From Time Magazine Archive
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"This is a wet night, madame and mesdemoiselles," he observed.
From Old Kaskaskia by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
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
"Oh did she? and what say you to that, mesdemoiselles?"
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade
"This is to form the roof, mesdemoiselles," he said.
From In the Reign of Terror by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty