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messieurs
[meys-yurz, mes-erz, me-syœ]
messieurs
/ ˈmɛsəz, mesjø /
noun
the plural of monsieur
Example Sentences
Ladies and gentlemen, messieurs et mesdames, le cheeseburger.
But “guys,” in the plural, has come to include everyone—it’s a loose version of “Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, mesdames et messieurs.”
That would square with the renaissance of French cuisine cresting across America; Ludo Lefebvre helped jump-start the country’s renewed hunger for precisely blond rolled omelets, escargot and croques messieurs et mesdames with his original Highland location of Petit Trois.
“Eh bien, messieurs, c’est fini. Allez,” he said.
“If I go out on my own, I have a symbol cane to let other people know that I can’t see them although I have enough peripheral vision that I can move around without bumping into things. Not being able to read is biggest nuisance. One very posh British restaurant we went to had the French ‘mesdames’ and ‘messieurs’ in pale grey letters on a pale-green sign.
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