Definitions
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- noun Courtesy title for an
unmarried woman inFrance or a French-speaking country
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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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.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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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.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Marie-Noelle Bas, president of the feminist group Watchdog, says the word "mademoiselle" is no longer relevant.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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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."
Forbes.com: News Victoria Pynchon 2011
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Critics of the word say the title mademoiselle is intrusive because it invited speculation about whether a woman is married.
NYDN Rss LINDSAY GOLDWERT 2012
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Marie-Noelle Bas, president of the feminist group Watchdog, says the word "mademoiselle" is no longer relevant.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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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.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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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."
NPR Topics: News 2011
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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.
NPR Topics: News 2011
victoriapl commented on the word mademoiselle
also french for an unmarried female
December 4, 2007