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 madam ['mædәm]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 女士, 夫人



    madam
    [ noun ]
    1. a woman of refinement

    2. <noun.person>
      a chauffeur opened the door of the limousine for the grand lady
    3. a woman who runs a house of prostitution

    4. <noun.person>


    Madam \Mad"am\, n.; pl. {Madams}, or {Mesdames}. [See {Madame}.]
    1. A gentlewoman; -- an appellation or courteous form of
    address given to a lady, especially an elderly or a
    married lady; -- much used in the address, at the
    beginning of a letter, to a woman. The corresponding word
    in addressing a man is {Sir}; often abbreviated ma'am when
    used as a term of address.

    2. The woman who is in charge of a household.
    [PJC]

    3. The woman who is in charge of a brothel.
    [PJC]

    1. A madam who admits furnishing call girls to wealthy clients shouldn't be prosecuted because she helped police track down a terrorist and reported on drug and sex criminals, her lawyer said Friday.
    2. What he did not tell me was that his friend was a madam running a call-girl business. Rosa, when I meet her, is a middle-aged woman with a tired face and kind eyes.
    3. Our madam, dressed in an embroidered gold jacket, pushed us toward the sofas and sat primly next to us to begin the serious business of inquiring into our tastes: food, drink and men.
    4. I have recognised that I have earned Matisse's rebuke to the woman who complained that an arm in a painting of his was out of proportion to the body: 'It's not an arm, madam, it's a picture.'
    5. Prissy Williams-Godfrey, a self-described madam and spokeswoman for prostitutes, said she is outraged at what she considers police inaction.
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