mesdames

But “guys,” in the plural, has come to include everyone—it’s a loose version of “Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, mesdames et messieurs.”

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.

But from a Scottish perspective this now has the appearance of a bizarre game of high stakes poker between mesdames May and Sturgeon.

And Paul H. Canada, the costume designer, wickedly dresses Molière’s mesdames in cartoon couture.

Which however I will pray mesdames to accept as an excuse for my vivacity.