ma'am
suomi-englanti sanakirjama'am englanniksi
(non-gloss): (contraction of)
(synonyms)
(RQ:Dryden Evening's Love)
(RQ:Vanbrugh Aesop) I vovv to Gad, Mame, I vvas ſo taken up vvith my good Fortune, I did not obſerve the extream Fancy of your Ladiſhip's VVedding-Cloaths— (..)
(RQ:Congreve Way of the World)
(RQ:Foote Commissary)
(RQ:Dickens Oliver Twist)
(RQ:Dickens Barnaby Rudge)
(RQ:Anne Bronte Agnes Grey)
(RQ:Dickens Hard Times)
(RQ:Trollope Belton Estate)
(RQ:Buchan Huntingtower)
(quote-journal)
(quote-web) On presentation to The Queen, the correct formal address is ‘Your Majesty’ and subsequently ‘Ma’am’, pronounced with a short ‘a’, as in ‘jam’. (..) For other female members of the Royal Family the first address is conventionally ‘Your Royal Highness’ and subsequently ‘Ma’am’.|footer=(small)'', the information is based on a Buckingham Palace protocol dating to (circa2).
(ux)
A respectful term of address to a woman of higher rank or position.
(RQ:Sheridan Critic) and (smallcaps), (smallcaps) and (smallcaps); (..)
A female schoolteacher; a schoolmarm.
(coordinate terms)
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