milady
Americannoun
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an English noblewoman (often used as a term of address).
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a woman regarded as having fashionable or expensive tastes.
milady's spring wardrobe.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of milady
1830–40; < French < English my lady
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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
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
Milord and milady ride home afterwards, exchanging scarcely a look, but telling all that needs to be known of their future together in a few strokes of luxuriously civilized acting.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Indeed, milady, she doesn’t eat that I know of,” offers the maid.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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
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
She saw it affectionately, gleefully, rubbing its hands over its duchesses, its countesses, its miladies.
From The Shuttle by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
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