Mdlle.
Americanabbreviation
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Mdlles
plural
Example Sentences
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“Did you leave the balcony, sir,” I asked, “when Mdlle. Varens entered?”
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Voiture had begun it in 1633 in the style fashionable at the Hôtel de Rambouillet, and even, as he pretends, with the help of Mdlle. de Rambouillet, to whom it is dedicated.
From The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare by J. J. Jusserand
Mdlle. de Roberval may still live, and I must restore them to France, or make sure that they are dead.
From Marguerite De Roberval A Romance of the Days of Jacques Cartier by T. G. Marquis
Mdlle. de Laistre possessed one which she kept in her chamber, dispelling its strong odours by perfumes.
From Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. by Various
We find him, for instance, recommending the perusal of "Mdlle. de Maupin" to a clergyman of the Established Church and sending a copy of Gautier's poems to Miss Bisland in New Orleans.
From Lafcadio Hearn by Nina H. Kennard
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