mademoiselle

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  1. Formerly, in France, the title of any woman, married or single, who was not of the nobility, and of noble married women whose husbands had not been knighted: also, when used absolutely, or without a name, the distinctive title of the eldest daughter of the next brother of the king (who was in like manner called Monsieur), and afterward of the first princess of the blood, whoever was her father. In general, the titles Madame and Mademoiselle were used to distinguish noble from plebeian women, without regard to conditions of marriage or celibacy; but Littré notes the fact that Racine, in writing to his' sister, addressed her as Madame before her marriage and as Mademoiselle after it. Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, … Duchesse de Montpensier, is forgotten, … but the great name of Mademoiselle, La Grande Mademoiselle, gleams through… the age of Louis Quatorze. T. W. Higginson, Atlantic Essays, p. 159.
  2. A distinctive title given to girls and unmarried women in France, equivalent to Miss: abbreviated in writing to Mlle., pl. Mlles.
  3. A sciænoid fish, the yellowtail or silver perch, Bairdiella chrysura. [Local, U.S.]
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  1. French, from ma, my, + demoiselle, damsel: see madam and damsel, de moiselle.
 

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