madame
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To mix it up, served with a fried egg on top and - voila - you have a croque madame.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2025
In addition to her pizza debut, Wood’s bakery will add French-inspired sandwiches, from a croque madame to a butter-and-ham baguette.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 6, 2024
The classic ham-and-cheesy croque monsieur becomes a madame with the addition of an egg.
From Salon ● Jan. 6, 2022
California Cooking With Jessica Holmes This new episode gets ready for the holidays with croque madame for brunch.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2020
The old madame did not venture to say she was afraid they would be neglected during Léonce’s absence; she hardly ventured to think so.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
So I spent my summer there looking for burgers, and not laughing, and eating these croque madames that tasted like soot, because I kept going to a workman’s cafe where everyone smoked, especially the cook.
From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2012
The following is a picture of things as they were:—"The madames on board, occupy the few days which elapse before landing in preparing the most dazzling effect, on their descent upon the Australian shore."
From The History of Tasmania , Volume II by John West
It did not fit any of the madames who were in the restaurant at the time.
From Commercialized Prostitution in New York City by George Jackson Kneeland
And it needed many "seigneurs" and "madames" to procure forgiveness for our admirable Racine for his monosyllabic "dogs!" and for so brutally bestowing Claudius in Agrippina's bed.
From Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations by Charles William Eliot
I ain't no patience with your saucy madames as can't remember as they're eating an honest man's bread.
From He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope
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
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