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MONSIEUR
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Irregular inflected form: messieurs
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Used as a French courtesy title; equivalent to English 'Mr'
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Monsieur" is a kind of...):
adult male; man (an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman))
Context examples:
But monsieur could not wait even a 'flash of time', and in the middle of the speech departed to find mademoiselle himself.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
And spreading out her dress, she chasseed across the room till, having reached Mr. Rochester, she wheeled lightly round before him on tip-toe, then dropped on one knee at his feet, exclaiming—"Monsieur, je vous remercie mille fois de votre bonte;" then rising, she added, "C'est comme cela que maman faisait, n'est-ce pas, monsieur?"
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Then there was Monsieur Rudin, the French Royalist refugee who lived over on the Pangdean road, and who, when the news of a victory came in, was convulsed with joy because we had beaten Buonaparte, and shaken with rage because we had beaten the French, so that after the Nile he wept for a whole day out of delight and then for another one out of fury, alternately clapping his hands and stamping his feet.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They laughed and chatted all the way home, and little Baptiste, up behind, thought that monsieur and madamoiselle were in charming spirits.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Adele was not easy to teach that day; she could not apply: she kept running to the door and looking over the banisters to see if she could get a glimpse of Mr. Rochester; then she coined pretexts to go downstairs, in order, as I shrewdly suspected, to visit the library, where I knew she was not wanted; then, when I got a little angry, and made her sit still, she continued to talk incessantly of her ami, Monsieur Edouard Fairfax de Rochester, as she dubbed him (I had not before heard his prenomens), and to conjecture what presents he had brought her: for it appears he had intimated the night before, that when his luggage came from Millcote, there would be found amongst it a little box in whose contents she had an interest.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
It was verging on dusk, and the clock had already given warning of the hour to dress for dinner, when little Adele, who knelt by me in the drawing-room window-seat, suddenly exclaimed—Voila, Monsieur Rochester, qui revient!
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
As he took the cup from my hand, Adele, thinking the moment propitious for making a request in my favour, cried out—N'est-ce pas, monsieur, qu'il y a un cadeau pour Mademoiselle Eyre dans votre petit coffre?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
