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milady

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mi·la·dy  (m-ld)
n. pl. mi·la·dies
1. An English noblewoman or gentlewoman.
2. Used as a form of address for such a woman.
3. A chic or fashionable woman.

[French, from English, my lady.]

milady
Noun
pl -dies (formerly) a continental title for an English gentlewoman
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.miladyMilady - an English noblewoman
noblewoman, peeress, Lady - a woman of the peerage in Britain


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His Highness the Prince of Saxe Leinitzer has called, milady.
*We are well aware that this term, milady, is only properly used when followed by a family name.
The Comte de la Fere, who had remained a young man to his sixty-second year; the warrior who had preserved his strength in spite of fatigue; his freshness of mind in spite of misfortune, his mild serenity of soul and body in spite of Milady, in spite of Mazarin, in spite of La Valliere; Athos had become an old man in a week, from the moment at which he lost the comfort of his later youth.
 
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