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‖ mesdames|medam|
[Fr., pl. of madame.]
1. The plural of madame.
c1573Gascoigne Posies, Flowers 43 And wherefore maruaile you Mez Dames, I praye you tell mee then. 1774Gibbon Let. 24 May in Life & Lett. (1869) 233 The Mesdames, by attending their father, have both got the smallpox.
2. Used to supply the want of an Engl. pl. of ‘Mrs.’
1792Wolcot (P. Pindar) Ode to Margate Hoy 37 My good friend Johnson—Mesdames Windsor, Kelly. 1879Illustr. Lond. News 15 Mar. 258/2 Mesdames Down and Jamieson. |