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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation Mesdames

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Examples

  • Mmes Houessou et Gandaho veulent monter une petite boutique à Cotonou au Bénin pour nourrir leurs 4 enfants correctement.

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  • But the pages clustered round him, who tittered whenever she went past the hotel on her way to visit, at their house in the neighbourhood, her charming great-aunts, Mmes. de Fezensac and de Bellery, saw upon the face of the young beauty the four-score years with which, seriously or in jest, the porter had endowed the ‘old trollop.’

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  • The salons of the Duchesse de Broglie, Mmes. de Staël, d'Haussonvìlle, Guizot, were most interesting and recherchés, very exclusive and very serious, but a centre for all political and literary talk.

    Chateau and Country Life in France Mary Alsop King Waddington

  • During the night, between Sunday, the 6th of September, and Monday, the 7th, the soldiers who were scattered among the houses pillaging, discovered the widow Bouché, her two daughters, and Mmes.

    The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 Various

  • The persons who were shut up with us in this fatal place were the Princesse de Lamballe, Mme. de Tourzel and her daughter Pauline, M. de Chamilly, my father's head valet de chambre, M. Huë, in the service of my brother, Mmes.

    The Ruin of a Princess Cl 1912

  • [Page 238] 1 To this Louis XVIII. adds in a footnote: After the words 'the rest of his people' [son monde] should be added: 'and the ladies, among whom were Mmes. de Tarente, de Duras, de la Rocheaymon, etc., who stayed there by his order.'

    The Ruin of a Princess Cl 1912

  • It was in fact two years later before I joined the force of the Bureau of Mmes.

    Ontario Mines and Miners 1912

  • Quietism; the opposition which she met with on the part of Fénelon and Mme de la Maisonfort, was terminated in 1698 by the lettres de cachet, ordering the withdrawal of Mmes de la Maisonfort, du Tour, and de Montaigle to convents.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

  • Its original members, like the Portia, were nine, as follows: Mmes.

    Old times in Dixie land : a southern matron's memories, 1901

  • This was indeed dreary, but, having Mrs. Child's sketches of Mmes.

    Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897 1898

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