Mlle

See also: Mlle.

English

Alternative forms

• Mlle.

Etymology

From French Mlle.

Noun

Mlle (plural Mlles)

1. Abbreviation of Mademoiselle.
   • 1969, Nea Morin, A Woman’s Reach: Mountaineering Memoirs, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, Inc., pages 265–266:

     (Mlle Mary Paillon states in the Bulletin Mensuelle du C.A.F., 1901, p. 67, that the first women to traverse the Arêtes were Mlles Marie and Louise Lacharière in 1891, but I have found no confirmation of this)

   • 1999, Gary Tinterow, Philip Conisbee, editors, Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch, New York, N.Y.: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, →ISBN, page 349:

     Provenance: Mme Jean-Baptiste Lepère, née Elisabeth Fontaine, Paris, until 1844; her daughter Mme Jacques-Ignace Hittorff, née Elisabeth Lepère, Paris, until 1870; her son Charles-Joseph Hittorff, Versailles, until 1898; Dr. Pierre and Mlle Elisabeth Cartier, by inheritance; their gift to the Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1938

   • 2020 (published), Mademoiselle Perle and Other Stories, Riverrun, →ISBN:

     An atrocious fear of compromising my independence invaded me, and also an extreme timidity, before the so obstinately impenetrable attitude of the Mlles Louise and Pauline.

References

• “Mlle”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “Mlle”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “Mlle”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

M^lle or Mlle f (plural M^lles or Mlles)

1. Abbreviation of Mademoiselle.

Alternative forms

• M^dlle
• Mlle.

See also

• M.
• M^me
• M^r