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
“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
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
The mademoiselles whom we meet will probably have their own sweethearts.
From The Mischief Maker by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
"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
They came from Sister Superior Veronique, they said, to see further about mesdemoiselles entering, eh---- Smilingly mesdemoiselles fluttered more than ever.
From The Flower of the Chapdelaines by F. C. (Frederick Coffay) Yohn
You were going to the Mairie, mesdemoiselles, when I arrived.
From The Isle of Unrest by Henry Seton Merriman
The Consul gave his daughter a little push: "Avancez, mesdemoiselles."
From The Heritage of the Kurts, Volume II (of 2) by Bj?rnstjerne Bj?rnson
Now, mesdemoiselles, we have agreed to amuse ourselves to-night without any one to overlook us, and without any escort.
From Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas père
