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Definitions
Etymologies
- French, from Old French ma demoiselle : ma, my; see Madame + demoiselle, young lady (from damisele, from Vulgar Latin *dominicella, diminutive of Latin domina, lady; see Madame).
Examples
“A new website lets users sign a petition and offers form letters that can be sent to companies and lawmakers to demand that the title mademoiselle be discarded.”
“Critics of the word say the title mademoiselle is intrusive because it invited speculation about whether a woman is married.”
“Marie-Noelle Bas, president of the feminist group Watchdog, says the word "mademoiselle" is no longer relevant.”
“In France, feminists are trying to do away with the word mademoiselle, which they see as separating women into two categories - married and unmarried - in a manner men aren't subjected to.”
“Buoyed by this new awareness, they are now taking on what they see as one of the most entrenched, if not discreet, barriers to gender equality in France: the word "mademoiselle.”
“Getty Images In France, feminists are trying to do away with the word mademoiselle, which they see as separating women into two categories - married and unmarried - in a manner men aren't subjected to.”
“Everywhere I seek for intelligence, for thought, for inward refinement -- in short, mademoiselle, you have the face of one whom the inner soul consumes, and, as such, may I plead again with you to give me a little of your spare time?”
““That is a bucolic, mademoiselle, which is only written on tablets of gold,” said the poet.”
““I am to be called mademoiselle as in the past,” she said, imperiously.”
“I knew that I must look the very picture of conscious guilt, for every word mademoiselle had uttered had pierced me like a two-edged sword.”
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victoriapl also french for an unmarried female Dec 4, 2007