madaming

Verb

madam (third-person singular simple present madams, present participle madaming or (rare) madamming, simple past and past participle madamed or (rare) madammed)

1. (transitive) To address as "madam".
   • Madam me no Madam, but learn to retrench your vvords; and ſay Mam; as yes Mam, and no Mam, as other Ladies VVomen do. Madam! 'tis a year in pronouncing.1668 June 22 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), John Dryden, An Evening’s Love, or The Mock-Astrologer. […], In the Savoy [London]: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published...
2. (ambitransitive, rare) To be a madam; to run (a brothel).
   • The writer has never accepted the criterion “will it make money?” He has known that the application of such an irrelevancy to any of the arts and sciences resulted in sterility, error and waste. But what is more important, the writer will not pretend that this is not so. He will not pretend that...1937, Henry Hart, “The Tragedy of Literary Waste”, in Henry Hart, editor, The Writer in a Changing World, New York, N.Y.: Equinox Cooperative Press, →OCLC, page 108

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