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Recent Examples of mademoiselleDoja also matches the vibe of a mademoiselle while putting her French to the test and posing for photos in front of the Eiffel Tower.—Michael Saponara, Billboard, 20 Aug. 2025
One former chef later told federal investigators how Epstein would take a girl to his master bedroom every hour, and after his massage, the maids would go make the bed and clean up.
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Isabelle Chapman,
CNN Money,
13 Mar. 2026
Their friendship is put to the test when Ayman meets Sara, the daughter of a wealthy family, for whom his mother works as a maid.
The show is also virtually devoid of romantic escapades, a good thing since Dumas’ novel is filled with a lot of sentimental claptrap about fighting for defenseless women’s honor or seducing virtuous maidens or going to war due to the physical beauty of a monarch.
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Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
11 Mar. 2026
The court maidens this year are Kennedy Kuntz and Sidney Hoover.
Laborious yet lithe lads and lasses have loyally leapt to luminate the lexical labyrinths of logic locking the lucrative lotto, longing to lure the lavish luxury lying latently in local landmarks.
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Jared Kaufman,
Twin Cities,
28 Jan. 2026
Pippi is this young, really strong, nine-year-old kick-ass gal, redefining the roles in a strict little town where people don’t expect a young lass to be living on her own.
These include typecasting Black women as jezebels, sapphires and mammies; these depictions, combined with the law enforcement they may be exposed to, increase their vulnerability under the law.
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Kerry Lester Kasper,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Aug. 2025
The mammy stereotype, which desexualized both dark skinned enslaved and free women (who were often in domestic roles), made muting Black beauty the norm.
What kind of barbaric regime puts a school for little girls in a compound that used to be military?
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Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
14 Mar. 2026
For girls, Cheryl Miller still holds the most points scored at 41 when Riverside Poly won Division I in 1982 at the Oakland Coliseum over Los Gatos 77-44.
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Eric Sondheimer,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Mar. 2026