madam
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"How would madam like her hair today?" teased Mrs Bennett, combing the hair of one of her four-year-old charges.
From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2025
McBride thanked the chair, calling them "madam," and began to speak before Keating demanded that McBride be addressed correctly.
From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2025
These days they joke that Maya will call Kamala “big sister general” until she earns the title of madam president.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2024
Speaker Frank: A simple matter of coordination, madam.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 21, 2023
"I cannot permit mice in my hotel, madam," he said to my grandmother.
From "The Witches" by Roald Dahl
He played queens, courtesans, goddesses and brothel madams with a studied grace.
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2026
Black History Tours from Off the Mall Tours: Off the Mall Tours offers a collection of walking tours covering subjects as esoteric as Civil War madams and the birth of D.C. punk.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2023
Thank you for coming to Rhode Island, sirs and madams.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 28, 2018
“They will be disorientated, but we now need to see how capable the madams are at keeping order,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2016
It is time, sirs, madams, to become part of the world.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
Ladies and gentlemen, messieurs et mesdames, le cheeseburger.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2024
But from a Scottish perspective this now has the appearance of a bizarre game of high stakes poker between mesdames May and Sturgeon.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 18, 2017
And Paul H. Canada, the costume designer, wickedly dresses Molière’s mesdames in cartoon couture.
From New York Times ● Jul. 4, 2014
Je vous prie d'agréer, mesdames, messieurs, l'expression de mes sentiments distingués", while across the Channel we'll be concluding our correspondence with "Laters, yeah?
From The Guardian ● Jul. 17, 2013
Even so, the social columnists still did not write about his wife’s dresses when he and she attended the opera, the way they described the nightly couture of mesdames Palmer, Pullman, and Armour.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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