milady

An English noblewoman or gentlewoman; the form of address to such a person; a lady.

To address as “milady”.

It may be as well to warn travellers of certain suspicious, half-genteel-looking men, speaking bad English, and Miladying every female.

To the ignorant Italians who milorded or miladied them, they were always anxious to explain that they “had no titles, and would be sorry to have any,”—that the members of the House of Lords were for the most part mere upstarts, and that the true nobility of England were the old land-owners,—the county families,—before whose names men only placed the plain Mr. and Mrs. by which they themselves, the Crawleys, preferred to be designated.