mademoiselle

Example Sentences

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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

Main characters were a sophisticated Manhattan night-club songstress, an aloof British movie actress, an equerry to the Duke of Gloucester, a fun-loving mademoiselle from Paris, a Connecticut Yankee.

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