mademoiselle

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Noun
  • Love the artwork on your book cover, with the dangerous looking senorita along with freaky birds and trees you're known for.
    Matt Wake | mwake@al.com, al, 19 Dec. 2019
  • Football managers reared their boogie heads once again this term when a video surfaced of Pep Guardiola doing his best at courting the attentions of a Spanish senorita.
    SI.com, SI.com, 6 June 2019
Noun
  • The roles of teacher or governess are the only respectable options open to the young women.
    Heller McAlpin, Christian Science Monitor, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Julie Andrews as Maria Andrews starred as Maria, the precocious and inspirational governess who helps the von Trapp kids learn to embrace music and family — and later becomes their stepmother.
    Keith Langston, People.com, 2 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • And some of the most remarkable too, as the Dynamic was the belle of the Art Deco ball with its Streamline Moderne design.
    Raphael Orlove, Robb Report, 27 Feb. 2025
  • The sassy Southern belle was known for her fashion, knack for art history and on-and-off relationship (but eventually very on) with Dwayne Wayne.
    Emily Krauser, People.com, 23 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The mammy stereotype, which desexualized both dark skinned enslaved and free women (who were often in domestic roles), made muting Black beauty the norm.
    Brooklyn White, Essence, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Toxic archetypes of Black womanhood—the mammy, the Black matriarch, the jezebel (or the Scraggle Daggle, in SYSBM parlance), and the welfare mother—are all alive and well in the Black Manosphere.
    Nicole Young, ELLE, 26 Jan. 2022
Noun
  • There’s no need to sing a song of a lass that is gone.
    Lincee Ray, EW.com, 18 Jan. 2025
  • In a trice couples formed, and the dancers whirled away more wildly, more extravagantly than before, for all the lads and lasses were fired with ambition to show us how real Hungarians could dance.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 30 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • What To Know Jones, 34, resides in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and has used her maiden and married names in voter registration and court documents.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Apr. 2025
  • On February 27, 1812, the twenty-four-year-old poet George Gordon Byron rose in the House of Lords to deliver his maiden speech.
    John Cassidy, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Later, a tracking shot outside the Bennets’ house at night glides from window to window, glimpsing the parents, then the sisters in their rooms, and also one of the maids walking up a flight of stairs singing a love song to herself.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Last month, four Ugandan women in maids’ uniforms sent a video plea to an aid group, saying that they had been detained for six months in Saudi Arabia.
    Kiana Hayeri, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Obama's shocking upset over the madam-president-in-waiting was an inflection point for the institutional trajectory of the Democratic Party.
    Newsweek, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Last summer, a local housekeeper inherited a few million dollars and some cats from her French madam, who shot herself on her Samui property.
    Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2025
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“Mademoiselle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mademoiselle. Accessed 3 May. 2025.

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