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Noun
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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
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Julie Andrews was just as doting in real life on the set of The Sound of Music as her governess character Maria, according to her young costars.—
Jen Juneau,
People.com,
1 Mar. 2025
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Winifred, the protagonist of this Victorian-era grotesque, takes a position as a governess at an English manor.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
Noun
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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
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The set-up is simple: A Southern belle and her mother wait dutifully on the porch of their plantation for the return of a soldier following the American Civil War.—
Harrison Richlin,
IndieWire,
11 Feb. 2025
Noun
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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
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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
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There’s no need to sing a song of a lass that is gone.—
Lincee Ray,
EW.com,
18 Jan. 2025
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That's absolutely the wildest way to welcome a lass to your city.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
Newsweek,
9 Dec. 2024
Noun
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The collection includes a traditional gamelan ensemble, a 19th-century star calendar used to predict destinies and a pair of 17th-century celestial maidens intricately carved from pink volcanic tuff stone.—
Roger Sands,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
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Now, a good 25 years after it was written, The Last Five Years is getting its maiden run on Broadway, with Adrienne Warren playing Cathy, the promising young musical theater actress floundering in summer stock, and Nick Jonas as Jamie, the driven young writer hurtling toward literary stardom.—
Marley Marius,
Vogue,
6 Mar. 2025
Noun
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In Banksy’s version, the maid is replaced by two men wearing hazmat suits and pushing a barrel of toxic waste.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
25 Feb. 2025
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Back at stately Beck Manor, Reacher finally gets to tuck into some of the Irish cook’s delicious stew and parler a little français with the French maid, who reveals that Beck has a mechanic on staff, too.—
Chris Klimek,
Vulture,
20 Feb. 2025
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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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Throw in Morton, who has made amiable viciousness into a trademark of this phase of his career, and Catherine Tate as a Dutch brothel madam with a PhD, and Going Dutch has the sort of ensemble already in place for long-term laughs.—
Daniel Fienberg,
The Hollywood Reporter,
2 Jan. 2025
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“Mademoiselle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mademoiselle. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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