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
  • Qualley is set to play a governess who is taking care of children in a remote gothic manor while hiding her psychopathic tendencies.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 20 Jan. 2025
  • The movie recounts the story of the von Trapp family, and the novice nun Maria who serves as governess of the seven children, and later (spoiler alert) marries their father only to have to flee the Nazi regime following the annexation of Austria.
    Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey, contributor, CNBC, 20 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
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
  • In the background is a lake, perhaps where King Arthur’s mythical maiden resided before giving him his sword.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Cowgirls, grunge girls, hippie chicks, hula girls, Mods, Pre-Raphaelite maidens, and surfers are some of the territories that her designs have come up with.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 29 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • There are letters and gifts given to the house’s maids, butler and gardener.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 9 Feb. 2025
  • Latinos’ vulnerability is particularly evident in wealthier areas like Pacific Palisades, where many commute daily for household roles such as maids, housekeepers and home health aides.
    Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2025
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
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