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
“Sit. I’m sure if one of you were to call out instructions, the mademoiselle who looks like a giraffe will hear, will she not?”
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 George Weston
The mademoiselles whom we meet will probably have their own sweethearts.
From The Mischief Maker by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
"To what am I indebted for the honour of this visit, mademoiselles?"
From My Strangest Case by Guy Boothby
At 300 meters, neither slackening nor quickening their punishing pace, they passed the mesdemoiselles.
From Time Magazine Archive
The medical watchdogs and mesdemoiselles the ambulance-drivers saw to that.
From Cavalry of the Clouds by Alan Bott
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
Here a general murmur arose, and the teacher, opening her lips for the first time, ejaculated— "Silence, mesdemoiselles!"
From The Professor by Charlotte Brontë
Come, come, mesdemoiselles, we mustn't talk so much.
From San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Charles Paul de Kock
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