mademoiselle
mademoiselle Lexical Profile
mademoiselle Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A courtesy title or polite form of address used for an unmarried French-speaking woman or girl, equivalent to 'Miss'.
"The waiter politely asked the young woman, 'May I take your coat, Mademoiselle?'"
A Frenchwoman employed as a resident governess or language tutor in an English-speaking household.
"During the nineteenth century, the aristocratic family hired a mademoiselle to teach the children fluent French."
American A small, silvery marine drum fish (Bairdiella chrysoura) native to the western Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, closely related to the croaker.
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed from French mademoiselle, a compound of ma ('my') and demoiselle ('young lady'), which derives from Old French damoisele and ultimately from Vulgar Latin dominicella, a diminutive of Latin domina ('mistress' or 'lady').
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