Definition of Mesdames

1. n. pl. of Madame and Madam.

Definition of Mesdames

1. Noun. (plural of madam) ¹

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Definition of Mesdames

1. madame [n] - See also: madame

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mesdames

mesaxon
mescal
mescal bean
mescal beans
mescalin
mescaline
mescalines
mescalins
mescals
mesclum
mesclums
mesclun
mescluns
mesdames (current term)
mesdemet
mesdemoiselles
mese
mesectic
mesectoderm
meseemed
meseemeth
meseems
mesel
meseled
meself
meselry
mesels
mesembryanthemum

Literary usage of Mesdames

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Illustrious Dames of the Court of the Valois Kings by Pierre de Bourdeille Brantôme (1912)
"mesdames Charlotte, Louise, Magdelaine, and Marguerite de France. ... First she had mesdames Charlotte and Louise, whom death did not allow to reach the ..."

2. Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France and Wife of Louis XVI: Queen of by Campan (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette), Mme Campan (1910)
"... OF MARIE ANTOINETTE CHAPTER II WAS fifteen years of age when I was appointed reader to mesdames. I will begin by describing the Court at that period. ..."

3. The North American Review by Making of America Project, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1824)
"... Lectrice des mesdames et premiere Femme de Chambre la Reine. 3 vols. 8vo. Paris,. THIS work was intended, in part, as a defence of the cr. racter of the ..."

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