Mdlle.
Americanabbreviation
plural
MdllesExample Sentences
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“Did you leave the balcony, sir,” I asked, “when Mdlle. Varens entered?”
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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The cost of this opinion was three guineas, which Mdlle. de Murska paid without a murmur.
From The Mapleson Memoirs, vol I 1848-1888 by Mapleson, James H.
Let none but Master Cartier's ears hear the story of Mdlle. de Roberval and M. de Pontbriand.
From Marguerite De Roberval A Romance of the Days of Jacques Cartier by Marquis, T. G.
To be twenty-four years her senior was, for the husband of a youthful princess so excelling in wit and beauty, certainly a formidable inequality, and so Mdlle. de Bourbon seems to have thought.
From Political Women, Vol. 1 by Menzies, Sutherland, fl. 1840-1883
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
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