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
  • Qualley is set to play a governess taking care of children in a remote gothic manor while hiding her psychopathic tendencies.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 17 Jan. 2025
  • How to deal with air taxis working in the vicinity of Austrian governesses frolicking in the Edelweiss has yet to be determined.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 12 Jan. 2025
Definition of governess
Noun
  • Initially a passive Southern belle, Kidman’s Ada morphs before our eyes into a woman made harder and stronger by the absence of men, and her physicality matches the tenacity Kidman so often incorporates into her work.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 3 Jan. 2025
  • 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
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
  • In his maiden floor speech as Senate majority leader, Sen. John Thune of South Dakota used his first few minutes of floor time to make a commitment to defend the filibuster rule, which requires at least 60 votes to pass legislation in the Senate.
    Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Nitish Kumar Reddy, who made a brilliant maiden Test century in the first innings at No.8, should be batting in the top six.
    Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
Definition of maiden
Noun
  • This corruption exists at all levels, from the courts and local police — which help poachers and traffickers avoid prosecution — to the guides, maids, contractors, and other service workers who get paid for information.
    Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Here, Angela Brown, CEO of Savvy Cleaner, a company that trains house cleaners and maids, shares her no-fail cleaning tips for how to treat stains and keep wall-to-wall carpeting looking its best.
    Jennifer Beck Goldblatt, Architectural Digest, 9 Jan. 2025
Definition of maid
Noun
  • 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
  • Neither madam nor monsieur had any idea what a fish fork was.
    Paul Keane, Hartford Courant, 6 Nov. 2024
Definition of madam
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