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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation Madame

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Examples

  • I'm sure you've made a new friend in Mme Alberte -- especially now that you've publicized her son's stand.

    mamie - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • Directory had a queen who was young and beautiful called Mme

    Time Regained 2003

  • With the exception of Marxist classics and the works of Stalin, Mao, and the late Lu Xun, whose name Mme.

    Wild Swans Jung Chang 1991

  • With the exception of Marxist classics and the works of Stalin, Mao, and the late Lu Xun, whose name Mme Mao was using for her personal vendettas, books were burning all across China.

    WILD SWANS THREE DAUGHTERS OF CHINA CHANG, JUNG 1991

  • With the exception of Marxist classics and the works of Stalin, Mao, and the late Lu Xun, whose name Mme.

    Wild Swans Jung Chang 1991

  • My mother was extremely proud, and not at all flattered that she should be plain Mme. Kerouguet, although she was devoted to my father and it was the happiest ménage.

    A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago 1919

  • Several of them sought us out, lamenting their misfortunes, and these mournful tales were recited in Mme. Du Barry's splendid garden, near the "Temple of Love," amid flowers and under the brightest of skies!

    Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun 1903

  • I was glad to notice a bust of Marie Antoinette in Mme. Campan's room.

    Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun 1903

  • It was the greatest joy to me to see some of those things in Mme. Ricard's library, that I had read and dreamed about so long in my head.

    Daisy 1868

  • It is a short but colourful roll-call that stretches from Cherie Blair, to Anne Sinclair aka Mme Strauss Khan, Melania Trump and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

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