mesdemoiselles

“You are very silent today, mesdemoiselles,” she said, after advancing a little way among her companions.

The Vendetta 2007

I did not bear the first view like a stoic; I was dazzled, my eyes fell, and in a voice somewhat too low I murmured — “Prenez vos cahiers de dictee, mesdemoiselles.”

The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte 2006

Here a general murmur arose, and the teacher, opening her lips for the first time, ejaculated — “Silence, mesdemoiselles!”

The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte 2006

In modern French, it's mademoiselle/mesdemoiselles.

languagehat.com: KINDERGARTNER. 2004

I had heard hundreds of such little minced, docked, dry phrases, from the pursed-up coral lips of a score of self-possessed, self-sufficing misses and mesdemoiselles.

Villette 2003

Indeed, we have been like two mad things all day, ‘to such a prodigious degree’ (as aunt would say), that mother said, with her severe expression, ‘Whatever can be the matter with you, mesdemoiselles?’

Father Goriot 2003

"_Bon jour, mesdemoiselles_," he cried, with a smile and a bow that included them all.

Peggy-Alone Mary Agnes Byrne

"Truly, _mesdemoiselles, c'est à se donner au diable_!"

Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 Various

Our period of rest was divided between Burbure and Busnes, and in both places the mesdemoiselles and the estaminets were a source of real delight to the men of the 7th.

The Seventh Manchesters July 1916 to March 1919 S. J. Wilson

Indeed, we have been like two mad things all day, ‘to such a prodigious degree’ (as aunt would say), that mother said, with her severe expression, ‘Whatever can be the matter with you, mesdemoiselles?

Paras. 500–599 1917