mademoiselle
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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
A warning that the general was not the only one who would be in a fix if their version was sung decided them to make the unkissable mademoiselle the heroine.
From Time Magazine Archive
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“And yet, mademoiselle, this time your manner is quite different. You no longer betray the impatience. You are calm and philosophical.”
From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
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Linux lads and Mac mademoiselles, your time has come to play Inscryption!
From The Verge ● Jun. 23, 2022
There may have been a subtle throwback to the those well-brought up “bon chic bon genre” mademoiselles, before the 1968 Paris student uprising.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2011
"Eef mademoiselles, your aunts, should get to hear—" "Oh, I won't tell."
From Mary Minds Her Business by George Weston
The mademoiselles whom we meet will probably have their own sweethearts.
From The Mischief Maker by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
"To what am I indebted for the honour of this visit, mademoiselles?"
From My Strangest Case by Guy Boothby
At 300 meters, neither slackening nor quickening their punishing pace, they passed the mesdemoiselles.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In Paris, as in London, troops of acquaintance came forward to receive 'Madame Maria et mesdemoiselles ses sœurs,' as they used to be announced.
From A Book of Sibyls Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen by Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Mon Dieu! how you do chatter to-day, mesdemoiselles!
From San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Charles Paul de Kock
"Leave the room, mesdemoiselles," cried Madame Denis, rising and making her daughters rise also.
From The Conspirators The Chevalier d'Harmental by Alexandre Dumas père
There are no mesdemoiselles in France now, and I shall call you Elise instead of Madame.
From In the Reign of Terror by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty