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
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • One of the most popular rooms at the event was the mirrored ballet belle of the ball setup.
    Kristen Bateman, Vogue, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Bette Davis — Jezebel (1938) Bette Davis may have had more iconic roles during her illustrious career, but her turn as a headstrong Southern belle in Jezebel stands out as one of Hollywood's earliest feminist-leaning heroes.
    EW Staff, EW.com, 2 Mar. 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
  • That's absolutely the wildest way to welcome a lass to your city.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • But with nine goals and two assists in his first 27 Premier League appearances, in a team that has spent the entire season toiling near the foot of the table, Strand Larsen can already be quietly satisfied with his maiden campaign in a new league.
    Steve Madeley, The Athletic, 17 Mar. 2025
  • No one knows exactly who made them, or how to definitively interpret their narrative, but there’s something instantly striking about the iconography: a white unicorn is pursued, retaliates, is lured by a maiden, and then is caught, encircled by a fence, and chained to a tree trunk.
    Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The room looked very nice, so clearly the maid had done her work.
    Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 15 Mar. 2025
  • The leading occupations for immigrants in 2023 included manicurists, maids, housekeepers and roofers.
    Yacob Reyes, Axios, 11 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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 25 Mar. 2025.

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