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Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mademoiselle
Noun
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Love the artwork on your book cover, with the dangerous looking senorita along with freaky birds and trees you're known for.—
Matt Wake | mwake@al.com,
al,
19 Dec. 2019 -
Football managers reared their boogie heads once again this term when a video surfaced of Pep Guardiola doing his best at courting the attentions of a Spanish senorita.—
SI.com,
SI.com,
6 June 2019
Noun
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The 1965 musical featuring Julie Andrews as Maria and Christopher Plummer as Capt. von Trapp is about a young woman studying to become a nun who is sent to be the governess for a family with seven children.—
Elizabeth Marie Himchak,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 June 2025
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In the evenings, Vincent embarks on a surreptitious love affair with Arthur, a soldier on leave — who's also the son of Vincent's governess.—
Lizz Schumer,
People.com,
27 May 2025
Noun
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But few American cities offer an in-depth look at the lives of pre-Civil War Southerners like Natchez, formerly the home of the native Natchez Indians, Civil War soldiers, Southern belles, enslaved Africans and civil rights pioneers.—
Amy Bentley,
Oc Register,
7 May 2025
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And some of the most remarkable too, as the Dynamic was the belle of the Art Deco ball with its Streamline Moderne design.—
Raphael Orlove,
Robb Report,
27 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The mammy stereotype, which desexualized both dark skinned enslaved and free women (who were often in domestic roles), made muting Black beauty the norm.—
Brooklyn White,
Essence,
30 Nov. 2022
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Toxic archetypes of Black womanhood—the mammy, the Black matriarch, the jezebel (or the Scraggle Daggle, in SYSBM parlance), and the welfare mother—are all alive and well in the Black Manosphere.—
Nicole Young,
ELLE,
26 Jan. 2022
Noun
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The kid gets to fall in love with a free-spirited lass.—
Chris Vognar,
Los Angeles Times,
15 May 2025
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There’s no need to sing a song of a lass that is gone.—
Lincee Ray,
EW.com,
18 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The horse that is poised to pull the upset is Baeza, who has only won one race, a maiden at Santa Anita.—
John Cherwa,
Los Angeles Times,
6 June 2025
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In Greek myth, the Hesperides were maidens who guarded golden apples that, once eaten, promised everlasting life.—
Sean Kingsley,
HollywoodReporter,
24 May 2025
Noun
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You as a cook, a chef, a butler, a maid, the engineer.—
Lexy Perez,
HollywoodReporter,
16 June 2025
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Often Black women were relegated to stereotypical roles as maids, mammies, or exoticized figures.—
Ime Ekpo,
Forbes.com,
8 June 2025
Noun
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The film scored no top-line awards or nominations, but the HBO reboot, which premiered in 2016, landed 54 Emmy nominations and nine wins across its four-season run, including a 2018 trophy for Thandiwe Newton (lead actress, drama) for her performance as the series’ cunning madam, Maeve Millay.—
Randee Dawn,
Los Angeles Times,
16 June 2025
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In 1946, right after World War II, former San Francisco madam Sally Sanford bought the by-then vacant buildings and reopened it as the Valhalla.—
Demetrius Simms,
Robb Report,
21 May 2025
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“Mademoiselle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mademoiselle. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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