Meanings
plural Mlles · alternative Mlle.
- abbreviationAbbreviation of Mademoiselle.
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.
2020 (published), Mademoiselle Perle and Other Stories, Riverrun, →ISBN2 more examples
(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)
1969, Nea Morin, A Woman’s Reach: Mountaineering Memoirs, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, Inc., pages 265–266Provenance: 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
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
Origin
- FrenchMlle
- FrenchMlle
- EnglishMlle
Borrowed from French Mlle.
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