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Madam & Eve — is a daily comic strip originating in South Africa. The strip, by Stephen Francis and Rico Schacherl, is syndicated in 13 publications and claims a daily readership of over 4 million people. [The comic s circulation information (number of… … Wikipedia
madam — [mad′əm] n. pl. madams; for 1, usually mesdames [mā däm′, mādam′] [mā däm′, mādam′] [Fr madame, orig. ma dame < L mea domina, my lady: see DAME] 1. a woman; lady: a polite term of address 2. the mistress of a household ☆ 3. a woman in charge… … English World dictionary
Lady Jane Grey — The Streatham Portrait, discovered at the beginning of the 21st century and believed to be a copy of a contemporary portrait of Lady Jane Grey.[1] … Wikipedia
Lady Magdalene's — is an independently produced feature film starring Star Trek s Uhura, Nichelle Nichols, who is also one of the film s two executive producers. The other executive producer is J. Neil Schulman, who wrote the original screenplay and was its first… … Wikipedia
Madam — Mad am, n.; pl. {Madams}, or {Mesdames}. [See {Madame}.] 1. A gentlewoman; an appellation or courteous form of address given to a lady, especially an elderly or a married lady; much used in the address, at the beginning of a letter, to a woman.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
madam — c.1300, from O.Fr. ma dame, lit. my lady, from L. mea domina (Cf. MADONNA (Cf. madonna)). Meaning female owner or manager of a brothel is first attested 1871 … Etymology dictionary
madam — ► NOUN 1) a polite form of address for a woman. 2) Brit. informal a conceited or precocious girl. 3) a female brothel keeper. ORIGIN French ma dame my lady … English terms dictionary
Madam — This article is about the title. For other uses, see Madam (disambiguation). Mme redirects here. For other uses, see MME (disambiguation). Madam, or madame, is a polite title used for women which, in English, is the equivalent of Mrs. or Ms., and … Wikipedia
madam — In the Middle Ages this was a title of great respect for a woman of the highest social rank, the equivalent of ‘my lady’. The expression was borrowed from French, where madame had that precise meaning, ‘my lady’. In the early seventeenth… … A dictionary of epithets and terms of address
lady, my — This expression would be used by a servant to address the wife of a peer or a peeress in her own right. Other speakers would use ‘Lady’ + last name, or a polite term such as ‘Madam’, or if their relationship with the woman in question… … A dictionary of epithets and terms of address
Lady — For other uses, see Lady (disambiguation). The word lady is a polite term for a woman, specifically the female equivalent to, or spouse of, a lord or gentleman, and in many contexts a term for any adult woman. Once relating specifically to women… … Wikipedia
