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- abbreviation
Mesdemoiselles
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Examples
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The teachers presiding over this mixed multitude were three in number, all French — their names Mdlles.
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"Mdlles.;" or else, from time to time, some josser, a friend of the manager's or an agent, prowling around among the flesh-colored tights.
The Bill-Toppers J. Andr�� Castaigne
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Madame de Genlis, under her feigned name of Brulard, had been staying in Bury, together with Mdlles.
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If the reader will recall to mind what I said in speaking of Mdlles.
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888
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At about nine o'clock, with a silken rustling, arrive the three guéchas in vogue in Nagasaki: Mdlles.
Madame Chrysantheme Pierre Loti 1886
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Yves has dropped his silver whistle in the sea, the whistle so absolutely indispensable for the maneuvers; and we search the town through all day long, followed by Chrysanthème and Mdlles.
Madame Chrysantheme Pierre Loti 1886
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Nothing in the dreams of Madame Carson, or Madame Camille, or Madame Devey, nothing in the blazoned pages of the Almanachs des Dames and Belle Assemblée, ever approached the Mdlles.
Tancred Or, The New Crusade Benjamin Disraeli 1842
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The cardinal had slowly taken the road to exile, summoning to him his nieces, Mdlles.
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5 1830
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