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MADEMOISELLE
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Irregular inflected form: mesdemoiselles
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small silvery drumfish often mistaken for white perch; found along coasts of United States from New York to Mexico
Synonyms:
Bairdiella chrysoura; mademoiselle; silver perch
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("mademoiselle" is a kind of...):
drum; drumfish (small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise)
Holonyms ("mademoiselle" is a member of...):
Bairdiella; genus Bairdiella (drumfish)
Context examples:
If I were mademoiselle, I would never consent to go with you.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Et cela doit signifier, said she, qu'il y aura la dedans un cadeau pour moi, et peut-etre pour vous aussi, mademoiselle.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Est-ce que je ne puis pas prendrie une seule de ces fleurs magnifiques, mademoiselle?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
J'ai dit qu'oui: car c'est vrai, n'est-ce pas, mademoiselle?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
"Qu' avez-vous, mademoiselle?" said she.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Yes, he replied, absolutely sans mademoiselle; for I am to take mademoiselle to the moon, and there I shall seek a cave in one of the white valleys among the volcano-tops, and mademoiselle shall live with me there, and only me.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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