mademoiselle

noun

Definition of mademoisellenext
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as in madame

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as in duenna

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mademoiselle
  1. senorita
  2. governess
  3. belle
  4. mammy
  5. lass
  6. maiden
  7. maid
  8. madam
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
Definition of senorita
Noun
  • As Winifred assimilates into life at Ensor House, staff members begin to inexplicably disappear, and the owners of the estate begin to wonder if there is something amiss about their new governess.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Set in 1858, the film will follow a young, eccentric governess named Winifred Notty (Qualley) who arrives at the remote gothic manor known as Ensor House.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2024
Definition of governess
Noun
  • Ahead of Election Day Cyclorama: The Shape of Things contains a wide spread of imagery: footage on both pro- and anti-segregation riots, recordings from antiquated circus acts featuring a dancing elephant, silhouettes of what appear to be Southern belles in hoop skirts that laugh over tea.
    Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Bre Morris Another Southern belle to watch, Bre Morris kicked off convocation with Jimmy Choo sneakers.
    Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 14 Aug. 2024
Definition of belle
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
Definition of mammy
Noun
  • That's absolutely the wildest way to welcome a lass to your city.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Though… the promo for Episode 3 (watch below) suggests that Tula will attempt to being the lass back to life, through some verboten process.
    Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 25 Nov. 2024
Definition of lass
Noun
  • The Bianconeri will be hoping that the Dutch international – who was named in the Serie A Team of the Season last term for his displays with Atalanta – takes his own advice, turning in one of his best performances here and netting a long overdue maiden goal for the club.
    Adam Digby, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
  • Several presidents were among the passengers; Margaret Truman, a president's daughter, came along for the record-breaking maiden voyage.
    Steve Inskeep, NPR, 20 Nov. 2024
Definition of maiden
Noun
  • The film follows Allie (Danica McKellar), a down-on-her-luck New York hotel maid who lands an unexpected job taking care of a young European princess.
    Janey Tracey, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2024
  • The woman, who subsequently spent Tuesday night and much of the following day in a police cell, is believed to be a maid at the palace and was on a night out with around 50 members of palace staff at the time, according to The Sun newspaper.
    Lianne Kolirin, CNN, 13 Dec. 2024
Definition of maid
Noun
  • Neither madam nor monsieur had any idea what a fish fork was.
    Paul Keane, Hartford Courant, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Sage had befriended Hamilton and offered to trade information about the outlaw’s whereabouts to authorities to avoid deportation over her activities as a madam.
    Marianne Mather, Chicago Tribune, 18 July 2024
Definition of madam
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