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
  • The search for, and then bonding with, the young lass understandably got Gibbs reflecting on the tragic loss of his daughter Kelly, in the same car crash that killed his wife Shannon.
    Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 29 Oct. 2024
  • In a trice couples formed, and the dancers whirled away more wildly, more extravagantly than before, for all the lads and lasses were fired with ambition to show us how real Hungarians could dance.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 30 Sep. 2024
Definition of lass
Noun
  • The queen opened the show with a red gown made of fringe then the maidens entered with a golden belt around their waists.
    Ugonnaora Owoh, Essence, 31 Oct. 2024
  • On Wednesday morning, just hours before Reeves delivered her maiden speech, British newspapers ran a picture of the Chancellor at work in her Downing Street office.
    Samantha Conti, WWD, 30 Oct. 2024
Definition of maiden
Noun
  • Coward also pokes fun at the power struggle between the upper and lower classes as Julia tries and fails to keep the help, the officious maid Saunders (a hilarious turn by Cindy Goldfield), in her place.
    Karen D'Souza, The Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2024
  • In the show’s fourth season, Gretchen Rossi had a garage sale, Keough went shopping with her daughter at H&M (oh, the shame!), and Tamra Judge had to fire her maid.
    Louis Staples, Rolling Stone, 18 Oct. 2024
Definition of maid
Noun
  • 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
  • Warren Beatty plays McCabe, a drifter and fast-talker who falls in with, and falls in love with, Mrs. Miller (Julie Christie), a madam who offers to improve business at his low-rent brothel.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2024
Definition of madam
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