Example Sentences
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Ladies and gentlemen, messieurs et mesdames, le cheeseburger.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2024
But from a Scottish perspective this now has the appearance of a bizarre game of high stakes poker between mesdames May and Sturgeon.
From The Guardian • Apr. 18, 2017
“Tallinn is the capital of Estonia, mesdames et messieurs! ”
From The New Yorker • Apr. 4, 2016
And Paul H. Canada, the costume designer, wickedly dresses Molière’s mesdames in cartoon couture.
From New York Times • Jul. 4, 2014
Even so, the social columnists still did not write about his wife’s dresses when he and she attended the opera, the way they described the nightly couture of mesdames Palmer, Pullman, and Armour.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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