madame

To mix it up, served with a fried egg on top and - voila - you have a croque madame.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2025

The head witch in charge, Stevie Nicks, is front and center of Halsey's inspirations, calling her "the mystical madame herself" and impersonating Nicks' flowy outfit from Fleetwood Mac's "Rumors" album cover.

From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2024

For something more substantial, there is a seafood tower to share, along with a Parisian-centric menu that includes a croque madame sandwich, duck confit and pâté served with baguettes.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 9, 2022

California Cooking With Jessica Holmes This new episode gets ready for the holidays with croque madame for brunch.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2020

“I too shall go, but I shall gladly come again, if you will gif me leave, dear madame, for a little business in the city will keep me here some days.”

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

So I spent my summer there looking for burgers, and not laughing, and eating these croque madames that tasted like soot, because I kept going to a workman’s cafe where everyone smoked, especially the cook.

From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2012

The following is a picture of things as they were:—"The madames on board, occupy the few days which elapse before landing in preparing the most dazzling effect, on their descent upon the Australian shore."

From The History of Tasmania , Volume II by John West

I ain't no patience with your saucy madames as can't remember as they're eating an honest man's bread.

From He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope

It did not fit any of the madames who were in the restaurant at the time.

From Commercialized Prostitution in New York City by George Jackson Kneeland

Oh Lud," said Harry, "here's more fair madames in the mud.

From The Highwayman by H. C. (Henry Christopher) Bailey

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