mademoiselle

UK /ˌmæ.dəm.wəˈzɛl/ US /ˌmæ.dəm.wəˈzɛl/
noun 3verb 1

Definitions

noun

1

A courtesy title for an unmarried woman in France or a French-speaking country.

2

A young woman or girl, especially one who is French or French-speaking.

It was a teenage wedding, and the old folks wished them well / You could see that Pierre did truly love the mademoiselle...

verb

1

To address as mademoiselle.

If not courted by some tall and handsome “Chasseur,” or some crafty little valet who “mademoiselles” her, she almost invariably condescends to notice favourably some dandified linendraper’s assistant, or sixth clerk in an attorney’s office, whom she met one holiday at the Chaumière or at the Ermitage.

“And if Edla should have a taste and inclination for a military life, would, Mademoiselle wish to made her a general? or, if she had a particular penchant for anatomy, an anatomical professor? Young ladies belong probably to the St. Simonians, and young ladies like these desire that everywhere in civil life the woman should have the same privileges as the man.” (The President always Mademoiselled me very much when he was displeased with me.)

noun

1

Alternative letter-case form of mademoiselle.

To Mesdemoiselles ELIZABETH and LUCY OAKLEY, […]

The Malmaison Troupe, if I may thus style actors of such exalted social rank, consisted principally of Eugène, Jérôme, Lauriston, de Bourrienne, Isabey, de Leroy, Didelot, Mademoiselle Hortense, Madame Caroline Murat, and the two Mademoiselles Auguié, one of whom afterwards married Marshal Ney, and the other M. de Broc.

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