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ladyship

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Definition of ladyship

as in madam

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Recent Examples of ladyship Her ladyship directed Richard and Henry to report on one another’s health in every letter home. — Julie Flavell, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Aug. 2021 For almost a century, the Vogue treatment has been a perk of the first ladyship. — BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2021 Your ladyship The number of women India’s 25 high courts is rankling. — Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 7 Nov. 2019 Streep’s chastising of Trump in her acceptance speech at the Golden Globes was derided as a sniffy display of royal hauteur, as if her ladyship had gotten her blue sash in a twist. — James Wolcott, The Hive, 19 June 2017

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Noun

The origin story helps contextualize the misery and self-isolation of Cathy’s later years, as the madam of a Salinas whorehouse.

— Alison Herman, Variety, 1 Oct. 2026
In East of Eden, Pugh delivers yet another knock out performance as Cathy Ames, the distant mother and madam at the center of Steinbeck’s multigenerational family saga and biblical allegory.

— Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of madam

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The show’s underpinned by the differences in character and country of Lady Cora and her formidable mother-in-law, the dowager Countess Violet Crawley, played by the equally formidable and much missed Dame Maggie Smith.

— Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 22 July 2025
The empress dowager’s legacy Empress Dowager Ling was largely unsuccessful in her bid for power.

— Stephanie Balkwill, The Conversation, 17 Mar. 2025

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The driver and bus matron apparently bypassed the daycare location and mistakenly dropped Ka'Mylah somewhere in between, and the child navigated her way home on her own.

— Carolyn Gusoff, CBS News, 14 Sep. 2026
An extremely unattractive teenage girl who resembled a forty-year-old matron in a women’s prison rather than a young woman fresh on the road to self-discovery approached me.

— Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026

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