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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

;

pl.

Mesdemoiselles

(#)

[F., fr.

my, f. of

mon

demoiselle

young lady. See

A French title of courtesy given to a girl or an unmarried lady, equivalent to the English

Miss

Goldsmith.

(Zool.)

A marine food fish (

Sciaena chrysura

), of the Southern United States; – called also

yellowtail

, and

silver perch

Noun.

A young woman, or the title given to one; miss; also, the puppet sent from the French metropolis to exhibit the prevailing fashions.