madame
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To mix it up, served with a fried egg on top and - voila - you have a croque madame.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2025
Café Presse ran a brasserie-inspired menu — roast chicken, French onion soup and croque madame and frites — that was considered approachable and affordable.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 27, 2022
And so, I filmed the making of a croque madame — delicious, cheesy, and with a bright, wiggly egg on top, I figured it was bound to go viral.
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2021
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
The old madame did not venture to say she was afraid they would be neglected during L6once’s absence; she hardly ventured to think so.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
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
And it needed many "seigneurs" and "madames" to procure forgiveness for our admirable Racine for his monosyllabic "dogs!" and for so brutally bestowing Claudius in Agrippina's bed.
From Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations by Charles William Eliot
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
Nowadays, madames or housekeepers have a punch similar to those used by railroad conductors.
From Commercialized Prostitution in New York City by George Jackson Kneeland
Many arts of indirection were employed by eligible madames, monsieurs, and visiting notables of both sexes to remove that invisible yet formidable barrier of reserve.
From Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 by Carson Jay Lee
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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