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mademoiselling

mademoiselling is the present participle and gerund of mademoiselle.

Meaning of mademoiselle

Verb

mademoiselle (third-person singular simple present mademoiselles, present participle mademoiselling, simple past and past participle mademoiselled)

  1. (rare, transitive) To 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...1840, Auguste de Lacroix; [unknown, transl.], “The Parisian Lady’s Maid”, in Pictures of the French: A Series of Literary and Graphic Delineations of French Character, London: W[illia]m S. Orr and...

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Questions about mademoiselling

What is mademoiselling the present participle and gerund of?
Mademoiselling is the present participle and gerund of mademoiselle.

Words near mademoiselling in the dictionary

  1. Madelynn
  2. Madelynne
  3. mademoiselle
  4. mademoiselled
  5. mademoiselles
  6. mademoiselling
  7. Maden
  8. madeness
  9. Madens
  10. Mader
  11. Madera

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