monsieur

plural monsieurs · plural messieurs

1. datedA man, especially a French gentleman.

   Pass round the decanters; glad to see ye; fill up, monsieurs!

   1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Cabin”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 589

plural Monsieurs · plural Messieurs

1. Mister, especially in a French context.

   It will appear by the Minutes sent You to June i6th last, and by those which accompany this Letter, that Messieurs Smith and Schlatter have done their Part; [...]

   1880, Horace Wemyss Smith, Life and Correspondence of the Rev. William Smith, D. D.: First Provost of the College and Academy of Philadelphia. First President of Washington College, Maryland. With Copious Extracts from His Writings, page 140

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   As the Monsieurs suddenly showed up and confronted the situation with wicked grins on their faces, the gang members decided to sullenly disperse and slink away. It was like a scene from an old West showdown.

   2011, Rick Johnson, That's My Teenage Son: How Moms Can Influence Their Boys to Become Good Men, Revell, →ISBN, page 204

   Estella smiled when she considered how very different her circumstances were now to those when, not so long ago, she had feared Monsieur Jones, and thought of him only as her captor. Now, he was something else: her liberator, ...

   2014, Tasha Alexander, The Counterfeit Heiress: A Lady Emily Mystery, Minotaur Books, →ISBN, page 244

   Synonyms: M.