Read full poem →Dont s'honore le bon faiseur de sa commune,
Et madame Feyssard, un peu hommasse et brune,
Porte une robe loutre avec des reflets d'if.
Dictionary Entry
A polite form of address for a woman or lady.
In a Sentence
“Later, Mrs Grey was sitting in her favourite tea shop. “Would madam like the usual cream cakes and patisserie with her tea?” the waitress asked.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
de madame. madamela madamebovary madamedu madameblavatsky madamemadame said
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Poetry examples for “madame”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Jammes' poems are well represented in Miss Lowell's dilutation on _Six
French Poets_, especially by the well-known "Amsterdam" and "Madame de
Warens," which are also in Van Bever and Léautaud. He reaches, as I have
Read full poem →Flaubert, i.e., the clogging and cumbrous historical detail. He left
_Cœur Simple, L'Education, Madame Bovary, Bouvard_. His _Salome_
makes game of the rest. The short story has become vapid because sixty
Read full poem →address every one as a public meeting--is interrupted by the smiling
_bonne a tout faire_ who announces that _le dejeuner de Madame est
servi_, and the two women gathering up books and shawls go in to the
Read full poem →opportunity for the publication of a crop of spurious verses. Of these
_Madame Lavalette_ (first published in the _Examiner_, January 21, 1816,
under the signature B. B., and immediately preceding a genuine sonnet by
Read full poem →I shall not want Pipit in Heaven:
Madame Blavatsky will instruct me
In the Seven Sacred Trances;
Read full poem →Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyante,
Had a bad cold, nevertheless
Read full poem →By Hakagawa, bowing among the Titians;
By Madame de Tornquist, in the dark room
Shifting the candles; Fraulein von Kulp
Read full poem →Cy Est Pourtraicte, Madame Ste
Ursule, et Les Unze Mille
Read full poem →Adieu, madame, my mother dear,
But and my sisters three!