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madam

noun as in a title of address

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noun as in a woman in charge of an establishment

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noun as in a woman in charge of a brothel

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“Pardon me, madam. Do you have any idea where Muffinshire Lane is? I believe there are likely to be fancy shops nearby?”

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

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Usually, I just say, ‘I would take off my sunglasses, madam, but my pants would fall down.’

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

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This dragon dance is extremely costly, as everyone from Rhaenyra to a pleasure house’s madam warned us it would be.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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