"Mme" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: Mmes [plural]
Etymology: From French Mme. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|Mme}} French Mme Head templates: {{en-noun}} Mme (plural Mmes)
  1. Abbreviation of Madame. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of Alternative form of: Madame Categories (topical): Titles Synonyms: Mme.
    Sense id: en-Mme-en-noun-IHZ-EKlx Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "1922, Paul Gruyer, A Week at Versailles: The Town, the Palace, the Park, the Trianon Palaces, page 71:",
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          "ref": "1975 August 7, Listener and BBC Television Review, page 190, column 1:",
          "text": "In The Bernadinis’ Terrace, gracefully translated by Joanna Kilmartin, Mme Laure Bernardini and her companion, Mme Thérèse, are very old: ‘immobilised, like ships that have run aground, they exist minimally.’",
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          "ref": "1978, Nelly Wilson, Bernard-Lazare: Antisemitism and the Problems of Jewish Identity in Late Nineteenth-Century France, Cambridge University Press, published 2010, →ISBN, page 318:",
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          "ref": "2014, George J. Pappas, Where the Tides Meet: A Romance of the Gaspé, FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 162:",
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