madam
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McBride thanked the chair, calling them "madam," and began to speak before Keating demanded that McBride be addressed correctly.
From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2025
“Poor Things” features Bella, a reanimated woman who has to invent her life, and her guideposts are a prostitute, a brothel madam and a former actress.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2023
Speaker Frank: A simple matter of coordination, madam.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 21, 2023
I asked the hotel manager whether there were damages to be paid; he told me, 'No madam, nothing was broken, everything was simply disassembled'.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2023
“In his family? Or in him, my young madam? Which is it?”
From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks
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
“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
The end notes in “The Days Trilogy” build on references to everything from a family doctor to the madams of Baltimore to stories from his world travels.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 17, 2014
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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