- 1小姐（法語對未婚年輕女子的稱呼；公務上法國現在多用 Madame）。不是台灣口語裡有時帶意味的「小姐」。
Mademoiselle is a French title and a way to speak to, or speak about, a young French-speaking woman who is not married — the partner of English Miss, next to Madame (Mrs) and Monsieur (Mr). In English we borrowed the French word as it is, often in writing to Mlle. You use it with a surname (Mademoiselle Dupont) or, in older stories, on its own to a young woman. It is marked as French; you would not call a student Mademoiselle in ordinary English class unless you were playing at French. Though actually, France itself has largely away from it in official life: forms and government letters now use Madame for adult women, married or not, because Mademoiselle made women state their marital status when men did not have to. You still meet it in novels, films, cafés playing a certain charm, and older manners. The English plural is sometimes mademoiselles; French is mesdemoiselles. It is a title, not a job, and it is not a rude word — but using it for a grown woman today can sound old-fashioned or even a bit pointed.
組成Unadapted borrowing from French mademoiselle (ma “my” + demoiselle “young lady”).
同家族的字
- madamEnglish form of French madame, the married/adult counterpart of mademoiselle
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
mademoisellenoun/ˌmæ.dəm.wəˈzɛl/
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A courtesy title for an unmarried woman in France or a French-speaking country.
- 2
A young woman or girl, especially one who is French or French-speaking.
- It was a teenage wedding, and the old folks wished them well / You could see that Pierre did truly love the mademoiselle...
mademoiselleverb/ˌmæ.dəm.wəˈzɛl/
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rareTo address as mademoiselle.
- If not courted by some tall and handsome “Chasseur,” or some crafty little valet who “mademoiselles” her, she almost invariably condescends to notice favourably some dandified linendraper’s assistant, or sixth clerk in an attorney’s office, whom she met one holiday at the Chaumière or at the Ermitage.
- “And if Edla should have a taste and inclination for a military life, would, Mademoiselle wish to made her a general? or, if she had a particular penchant for anatomy, an anatomical professor? Young ladies belong probably to the St. Simonians, and young ladies like these desire that everywhere in civil life the woman should have the same privileges as the man.” (The President always Mademoiselled me very much when he was displeased with me.)
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。