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madame

[muh-dam, -dahm, ma-, mad-uhm, ma-dam] / məˈdæm, -ˈdɑm, mæ-, ˈmæd əm, maˈdam /
NOUN
madam
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STRONGEST


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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

The menu features an eclectic mix of luxurious-feeling dishes: a croissant madame with kimchi, French onion soup with duck stock, a smoked cod and chili oil-topped bagel.

From Seattle Times ● May 13, 2023

The classic ham-and-cheesy croque monsieur becomes a madame with the addition of an egg.

From Salon ● Jan. 6, 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

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

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

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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