Mademoiselle: Definition and part of speech

Mademoiselle

  1. n. A marine food fish (Sciaena chrysura), of the Southern United States; — called also yellowtail, and silver perch.
  2. n. A French title of courtesy given to a girl or an unmarried lady, equivalent to the English Miss.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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