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memsahib
[ mem-sahb; mem-sah-ib, ‐hib, ‐heeb ]
noun
- (formerly, in India) a term of respect for a married European woman.
memsahib
/ -hɪb; ˈmɛmˌsɑːɪb /
noun
- (formerly in India) a term of respect used of a European married woman
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of memsahib1
C19: from ma'am + sahib
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Example Sentences
The Collector's memsahib had gone off with the doctor, leaving her little child to the tender mercies of an ayah!
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The nephew does things very shabbily, and I think the Memsahib must help him.
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"Memsahib" was heard in every direction, for the arrival of a party of supposedly rich Americans50 had been duly heralded.
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It was the strange Memsahib, the khansammah observed to himself.
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Had the memsahib been slain, she had at least died in full view of the English—and there was a battle to be won.
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