milady
nomverbeattesté dans les dialogues
- Royaume-Uni//mɪˈleɪdi//
To address as “milady”.
nom
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historiqueAn English noblewoman or gentlewoman; the form of address to such a person; a lady.
Étymologie
Partly representing a colloquial pronunciation of my + lady, partly from French milady, from English my Lady. Compare milord.
verbe
- 1
To address as “milady”.
It may be as well to warn travellers of certain suspicious, half-genteel-looking men, speaking bad English, and Miladying every female.
With Czipra, tête-à-tête, he spoke also “per tu;” before others he miladyed her.
Within a space of twenty-four hours, I’ve gone from being “Miss Lattimar” to “Mrs Newell” to “Countess of Fensworth”. When the shopkeepers “miladyed” me this morning, I kept looking around to see which titled female had arrived.
“He thinks of himself as an old-fashioned knight. Lots of chivalry. I will get miladyed to death. He will probably try to serenade me.”[…]Prepare to be good-sirred and miladyed to death, if not by Cedric, then by his parrot.
Formes
- pluriel
- miladies
- passé
- miladied, miladyed
- participe passé
- miladied, miladyed
- participe présent
- miladying
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- miladies