madam

In her time, and in her opinion, a sensible woman’s paths to financial freedom were limited to hoping for a windfall or making one’s fortune off others’ backs as a madam.

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

“Poor Things” features Bella, a reanimated woman who has to invent her life, and her guideposts are a prostitute, a brothel madam and a former actress.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2023

Speaker Frank: A simple matter of coordination, madam.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 21, 2023

I never retaliated the way I felt I could or said anything smart, like, “Does madam need help?”

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

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

"You should be grateful to them, and to us for raising them, and to the other teahouse madams for caring for them," Du Barry says.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

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