MADAME (mesdames)

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Irregular inflected form: mesdames   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does madame mean? 

• MADAME (noun)
  The noun MADAME has 1 sense:

1. title used for a married Frenchwoman

  Familiarity information: MADAME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MADAME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Title used for a married Frenchwoman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("madame" is a kind of...):

dame; gentlewoman; lady; ma'am; madam (a woman of refinement)

 Context examples 

Madame had left the place immediately afterwards.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I do not think that I have the privilege, madame.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Madame Moritz, her mother, was a widow with four children, of whom Justine was the third.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I too shall go, but I shall gladly come again, if you will gif me leave, dear madame, for a little business in the city will keep me here some days.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Mesdames (to the dowagers), you will take cold to a dead certainty, if you stay in this chill gallery any longer.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

You are not to suppose, reader, that Adele has all this time been sitting motionless on the stool at my feet: no; when the ladies entered, she rose, advanced to meet them, made a stately reverence, and said with gravity—Bon jour, mesdames.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"The master's body!" roared the butler into the mouthpiece. "I'm sorry, madame, but we can't furnish it—it's far too hot to touch this noon!"

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Yes, madame.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)