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
Roughly speaking, the song had a heroine—a "mademoiselle from Armentieres," to whom the song was dedicated.
From Time Magazine Archive
But monsieur could not wait even a ‘flash of time’, and in the middle of the speech departed to find mademoiselle himself.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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
The mademoiselles whom we meet will probably have their own sweethearts.
From The Mischief Maker by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
"Eef mademoiselles, your aunts, should get to hear—" "Oh, I won't tell."
From Mary Minds Her Business by Weston, George
I flew downstairs and found not only children in every shape and form, but mothers in big hats and trailing skirts, and Frauleins in small hats and skirts curtailed, mademoiselles and nannies.
From The Professional Aunt by Wemyss, Mary C.E.
At 300 meters, neither slackening nor quickening their punishing pace, they passed the mesdemoiselles.
From Time Magazine Archive
"You are very silent to-day, mesdemoiselles," she said, after advancing a little way among her companions.
From Vendetta by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott
I had heard hundreds of such little minced, docked, dry phrases, from the pursed-up coral lips of a score of self-possessed, self-sufficing misses and mesdemoiselles.
From Villette by Brontë, Charlotte
Mon Dieu! how you do chatter to-day, mesdemoiselles!
From San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Kock, Charles Paul de
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 Ritchie, Anne Thackeray
