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English
Etymology
From French Mme.
Noun
Mme (plural Mmes)
- Abbreviation of Madame.
1922, Paul Gruyer, A Week at Versailles: The Town, the Palace, the Park, the Trianon Palaces, page 71:With them were the two royal children, Mmes Tantes (the elderly daughters of Louis XV), Mme Elisabeth, the Comic de Provence and his wife.
1975 August 7, Listener and BBC Television Review, page 190, column 1:In The Bernadinis’ Terrace, gracefully translated by Joanna Kilmartin, Mme Laure Bernardini and her companion, Mme Thérèse, are very old: ‘immobilised, like ships that have run aground, they exist minimally.’
1978, Nelly Wilson, Bernard-Lazare: Antisemitism and the Problems of Jewish Identity in Late Nineteenth-Century France, Cambridge University Press, published 2010, →ISBN, page 318:After the latter’s death, Meyerson remained Mme Bernard-Lazare’s trusted friend.
2014, George J. Pappas, Where the Tides Meet: A Romance of the Gaspé, FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 162:Mr. Parker added more wood to the fire and then he and Mme Dubois went in, leaving Miss Merrie behind with her wide-brimmed sun hat. Mme DuBois and Mr. Parker were the first to return and soon had their heads together checking the food hamper and cooler.
References
- “Mme”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “Mme”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “Mme”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
French
Pronunciation
Noun
Mme or Mme f (plural Mmes or Mmes)
- Abbreviation of Madame.
1959, Georges Simenon, Une Confidence de Maigret, Paris: Presses de la Cité, page 164:Je peux prouver que, la nuit où Mme Christine a été refroidie, je me trouvais peinard à Marseille, même qu’on trouvera mon nom en grosses lettres à l’affiche du Miramar...- I can prove that, the night Madame Christine was bumped off, I was in Marseille; you'll even find my name in big letters on the bill at the Miramar...
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