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Madame

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Ma·dame  (m-dm, mdm)
n. pl. Mes·dames (m-dm, -däm) Abbr. Mme.
1. Used as a courtesy title before the surname or full name of a woman, especially a married woman, in a French-speaking area: Madame Cartier; Madame Jacqueline Cartier.
2. madame Used as a form of polite address for a woman in a French-speaking area.
[French, from Old French ma dame : ma, my (from Latin mea; see me-1 in Indo-European roots) + dame, lady (from Latin domina; see dem- in Indo-European roots).]
madame [mad-dam, may-dam]
Noun
pl mesdames a French form of address equivalent to Mrs
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Noun1.Madamemadame - title used for a married Frenchwoman
gentlewoman, ma'am, madam, lady, dame - a woman of refinement; "a chauffeur opened the door of the limousine for the grand lady"
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On these steps, by-the-by, I have not unfrequently seen Madame Pelet seated with a trencher on her knee, engaged in the threefold employment of eating her dinner, gossiping with her favourite servant, the housemaid, and scolding her antagonist, the cook; she never dined, and seldom indeed took any meal with her son; and as to showing her face at the boys' table, that was quite out of the question.
The Professor by Bronte, Charlotte View in context
In the bedroom in which this passage ended, Bernouin encountered Madame de Beauvais, like himself intrusted with the secret of these subterranean love affairs; and Madame de Beauvais undertook to prepare Anne of Austria, who was in her oratory with the young king, Louis XIV.
Twenty Years After by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
Then she determined upon a boarding-house existence and lived for some time at that famous mansion kept by Madame de Saint Amour, in the Rue Royale, at Paris, where she began exercising her graces and fascinations upon the shabby dandies and fly-blown beauties who frequented her landlady's salons.
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