Madame Definition
mə-dăm, mădəm
mesdames
noun
A married woman: French title equivalent to Mrs.: used in English as a title of respect for a distinguished woman or generally for any foreign married woman.
Webster's New World
Used as a form of polite address for a woman in a French-speaking area.
American Heritage
Wiktionary
Origin of Madame
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French from Old French ma dame ma my (from Latin mea) (feminine of meus me-1 in Indo-European roots) dame lady (from Latin domina) (feminine of dominus lord, master of a household dem- in Indo-European roots)
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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Borrowing from French, from Old French ma dame (“my lady").
From Wiktionary
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