madam

When a lawman confirms to Cal the rumor that Cathy, known by then as the nearby town’s madam, Kate, shot his father, Cal muses, “He must have done something to hurt her.”

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

"How would madam like her hair today?" teased Mrs Bennett, combing the hair of one of her four-year-old charges.

From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2025

These days they joke that Maya will call Kamala “big sister general” until she earns the title of madam president.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2024

Speaker Frank: A simple matter of coordination, madam.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 21, 2023

“It’s behind the house, madam; it’s terrible muddy back there. Your gown will be ruined.”

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman

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

While Stabler busies himself with mobsters and madams, the long-running “Special Victims Unit,” whose fictional plots often riff on real-world headlines, has become a lugubrious public-service announcement on modern policing.

From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2022

Thank you for coming to Rhode Island, sirs and madams.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 28, 2018

The women were cheerful throughout; as they were being driven away, some called out to reporters, ‘Tell our madams we won’t be at work tomorrow!”

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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