milady

American  

[mi-ley-dee] / mɪˈleɪ di /

Or miladi

noun

miladies plural

1. an English noblewoman (often used as a term of address).

2. a woman regarded as having fashionable or expensive tastes.

   milady's spring wardrobe.

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milady British  

/ mɪˈleɪdɪ /

noun

1. (formerly) a continental title used for an English gentlewoman

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• miladies
  plural

Etymology

Origin of milady

1830–40; < French < English my lady

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

milady miladies

The sea was there, and the hills, and bartenders, housekeepers and porters speaking English salted with patois, exclaiming, “Milady, milady, welcome!”

From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2016

See you next year, milord, milady, when we’ll pick apart Season 3 with just as much delight, I hope.

From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2012

To be chic, milady also had to deck her head with a chignon.

From Time Magazine Archive

While the car makes the 30-minute trip into the city, Cyril works busily behind the curtain and deposits milady, newly sprayed and set, at the press conference, wedding party or opening-night audience awaiting her.

From Time Magazine Archive

At last milady flailed away with her hand brake on, and the kind of a day I had built lay in ruins.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

The nobles of England, quitting their homes, their wives, miladies and mistriss, so fair but so cold, dine universally at the tavern.

From Burlesques by Thackeray, William Makepeace

She saw it affectionately, gleefully, rubbing its hands over its duchesses, its countesses, its miladies.

From The Shuttle by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

The little Savoyard had just discharged a cargo of miladies, bound to England, after having had them on his charter-party eighteen months, and was now on the look-out for a return freight.

From A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland by Cooper, James Fenimore