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mesdames

[mey-dahm, -dam, mey-dam] / meɪˈdɑm, -ˈdæm, meɪˈdam /
NOUN
a title of address
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NOUN
a woman in charge of an establishment
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NOUN
a woman in charge of a brothel
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Ladies and gentlemen, messieurs et mesdames, le cheeseburger.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2024

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

And producers made sure to devote plenty of screen time to social-issue clashes between mesdames Hasselbeck and Behar.

From Time Magazine Archive

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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