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MADEMOISELLE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: mesdemoiselles   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small silvery drumfish often mistaken for white perch; found along coasts of United States from New York to Mexico

Synonyms:

Bairdiella chrysoura; mademoiselle; silver perch

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("mademoiselle" is a kind of...):

drum; drumfish (small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise)

Holonyms ("mademoiselle" is a member of...):

Bairdiella; genus Bairdiella (drumfish)

Credits

 Context examples: 

If I were mademoiselle, I would never consent to go with you.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Et cela doit signifier, said she, qu'il y aura la dedans un cadeau pour moi, et peut-etre pour vous aussi, mademoiselle.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Est-ce que je ne puis pas prendrie une seule de ces fleurs magnifiques, mademoiselle?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

J'ai dit qu'oui: car c'est vrai, n'est-ce pas, mademoiselle?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"Qu' avez-vous, mademoiselle?" said she.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Yes, he replied, absolutely sans mademoiselle; for I am to take mademoiselle to the moon, and there I shall seek a cave in one of the white valleys among the volcano-tops, and mademoiselle shall live with me there, and only me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)