What's the difference between mademoiselle and unmarried?

Mademoiselle


Definition:

  • (n.) A French title of courtesy given to a girl or an unmarried lady, equivalent to the English Miss.
  • (n.) A marine food fish (Sciaena chrysura), of the Southern United States; -- called also yellowtail, and silver perch.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At Covent Garden she earned herself the nickname 'Mademoiselle Non' because she insisted on redesigning her costumes, vetoing her partners; she clashed with the Royal Ballet's revered choreographer, the late Kenneth MacMillan.
  • (2) The professional rebel, who for years danced under the nickname Mademoiselle Non, will be dreaming outside the box even in retirement.
  • (3) If so I can tell you that I have never wanted to be married and you can call me Mademoiselle or Madame as you wish.
  • (4) "The owner was very kind and he took me around and said: 'Tonight we're welcoming Mademoiselle Maréchal-Le Pen,' and everyone clapped," she says hurriedly.
  • (5) In "Tongues of Stone" – an autobiographical short story she wrote in 1955 and which she entered for the Mademoiselle fiction contest – Plath wrote of how her main character lay in her bed listening to her mother's breathing, a sound so annoying she felt like getting out of bed and strangling her.
  • (6) Consider the following: – Like her protagonist Esther Greenwood, Plath came from Boston – Like Esther, Plath lost her father when she was young – Like Esther, Plath won an internship on a glamorous New York magazine in 1953, Mademoiselle.
  • (7) ( Wikipedia even informs me that) in a: "2006 interview, Joanne Greenberg said that she had been interviewed in 1986 by one of the women who had worked on Mademoiselle with Plath in the college guest editors group.
  • (8) "I heard she did do that – she went up on to the roof of the Barbizon and threw her clothes off," says Ann Burnside Love [fellow guest editor at Mademoiselle ].
  • (9) Cigarette ads appearing in seven magazines were reviewed, four directed to predominantly white readers (Newsweek, Time, People, Mademoiselle) and three with wide circulation among black audiences (Jet, Ebony, Essence).
  • (10) 5 rue de Dunkerque, +33 1 70 08 52 22, st-christophers.co.uk Mademoiselle Hotel This stylish boutique hotel is a breath of fresh air in a neighbourhood known for its outdated dives and soulless chains.
  • (11) I ask if she prefers to be called Madame or Mademoiselle; the French divas Catherine Deneuve and Jeanne Moreau are said to prefer Mademoiselle.
  • (12) On the morning of her first day at Mademoiselle , she dressed in a smart suit, but just as she was about to leave her room she suffered a nose bleed; drops of blood splattered on to her outfit, forcing her to change into a brown dress.
  • (13) While studying at Smith College in Massachusetts, Sylvia Plath had been submitting assignments to Mademoiselle magazine and secured one of 20 month-long placements starting in June 1953.
  • (14) In many ways, the New York offered by Mademoiselle was like a stage set, an artificially constructed world that Sylvia knew was a sham.
  • (15) Accompanying her on the journey to Manhattan was fellow Mademoiselle guest editor Laurie Totten, a junior at Syracuse University.
  • (16) While I'm relaying trivia, it's also interesting to note that Joan Didion and Ann Beattie had both previously been on the Mademoiselle scheme.
  • (17) Star struck: Sylvia Plath interviews the novelist Elizabeth Bowen for Mademoiselle magazine, Cambridge, MA, May 1953.
  • (18) So far, success had come easily: Sylvia had published many short stories and not only won two poetry prizes from Smith – the Ethel Olin Corbin prize and the Elizabeth Babcock award, which netted her $120 – but she had also been commissioned by Mademoiselle to interview Elizabeth Bowen in Cambridge.
  • (19) "What do you mean do I prefer being called Madame or Mademoiselle?
  • (20) According to Edith Raymond Locke, who worked on Mademoiselle as associate fashion editor at the time, Blackwell saw the magazine as something that "nourished young women inside and out" and indeed her first words of welcome to the 20 guest editors on that June morning included a plea to put "health before genius".

Unmarried


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Unmarried women had a higher risk of death than married women.
  • (2) However, unmarried women under 18 must obtain parental consent or written permission from their legal guardian or from a judge to undergo the operation.
  • (3) The unmarried men won 8-1, showing that being married doesn't mean you can score whenever you like.
  • (4) The Missouri data show a substantial difference in the smoking rates of married (23.2 percent) and unmarried (40.9 percent) women.
  • (5) While screening all women who were unmarried would detect 93% of those with chlamydia, the positive predictive value of 10.7% was not much higher than the overall prevalence.
  • (6) The most important risk factors for other preventable causes were found to be the mother being Maori (RR 4.35, CI 3.12-6.06), having a low birth weight infant (RR 3.56, CI 2.07-6.13) and being unmarried (RR 3.45, CI 2.47-4.82).
  • (7) Then one day I was at the hairdresser's and I read that the actor playing Cordelia was pregnant, but was going to carry on with the part and make her into an unmarried mother.
  • (8) Interviews regarding AIDS knowledge and related behavior change were conducted with a random sample of 409 unmarried individuals 18-39 years of age in Richmond, Virginia, between March 18 and April 3, 1987.
  • (9) The study group consisted of 283 unmarried students at several schools who were, on average, 19 years of age.
  • (10) Similarly, unmarried patients without a confidant had an unadjusted 5-year survival rate of 0.50, compared with 0.82 in patients who were married, had a confidant, or both (adjusted hazard ratio, 3.34; 95% confidence interval, 1.84 to 6.20; P less than .0001).
  • (11) Unmarried women with supervised deliveries are more likely to have financial support from the father of the child.
  • (12) By multiple logistic regression analysis, the odds of experiencing major weight gain were independently associated with low family income (odds ratio (OR) = 1.8 (95 percent CI, 1.0-3.3) ) compared with favorable income, and with becoming married (OR = 3.3 (1.7-6.3) ) or remaining unmarried (OR = 2.1 (1.1-4.2) ) compared with men who were consistently married.
  • (13) After allowing for maternal age, parity and smoking history, there was still a reduction in birth weight in the two unmarried groups, which was mainly associated with pre-term gestation rather than growth retardation.
  • (14) These differences are primarily the result of short-term variations in the amount of time they spend married; that is, women who are unmarried when they give birth are less likely to have a second birth soon afterward.
  • (15) Women most at risk of an adverse psychological reaction to abortion are those who are unmarried, adolescents, strongly religious, and are undergoing the procedure against their wishes.
  • (16) When facing the abortion question the following are necessary: more complete information on the consequences of indiscriminate sexual relations; a wider spread knowledge of contraceptive practices; the institution of special aid to unmarried mothers so as to prevent abortion remaining the only possible solution for an unbearable situation and which hides a serious psychological risk.
  • (17) Demented patients were more liable to be placed in an institution, as were unmarried or widowed persons and people unable to prepare their own meals.
  • (18) Logistic regression analysis showed that female gender, unmarried status, and poverty were important predictors of domestic violence.
  • (19) The worst off one-fifth of the elderly (disproportionately unmarried women, minorities, and the physically impaired) receives 5.5% of the elderly's total resources, whereas the best off one-fifth receives 46%.
  • (20) Only one category of people (unmarried men and women over the age of 35) had rates that exceeded ten per cent.

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