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- noun
madam
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Examples
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He always preceded her pompous name of Adelaide with the title madame with an air of half respectful mockery.
Une Vie 2003
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He always preceded her pompous name of Adelaide with the title madame with an air of half respectful mockery.
Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories Guy de Maupassant 1871
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Elizabeth Ashley will play the title madame in The Shakespeare Theatre Company's new production of George Bernard Shaw's
Playbill.com : News 2010
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BOSS DETECTIVE: Excuse me madame, is this your purse?
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BOSS DETECTIVE: Excuse me madame, is this your purse?
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BOSS DETECTIVE: Excuse me madame, is this your purse?
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BOSS DETECTIVE: Excuse me madame, is this your purse?
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BOSS DETECTIVE: Excuse me madame, is this your purse?
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BOSS DETECTIVE: Excuse me madame, is this your purse?
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The male madame is driven to extremes of emotion over office messiness.
Boing Boing: January 9, 2005 - January 15, 2005 Archives 2005
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