milady

American  

[mi-lay-dee] / mɪˈleɪ di /

Or miladi also m'lady

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

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Etymology

Origin of milady

1830–40; < French < English my lady

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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

In return, milady will have the ideal promo for the end of Prohibition in the U.S.

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

There you are, milady, meet the rabbit doll,” said Lucius.

From "The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane" by Kate DiCamillo

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 James Fenimore Cooper

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 William Makepeace Thackeray

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

From The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett

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