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Madame (iou) and Thessaloniki (sh)


Madame (iou)



Madame noun. (see also MESDAMES). ME.
[Old French: see MADAM noun. Partly var. of MADAM noun.]
I.
See MADAM noun. ME.
II.
a. Used as a title (preceding the surname) of or as a respectful form of address to a French married woman or (more widely) a married woman of any non-British nationality (corresp. to English Mrs, Lady, etc.), or in literal renderings of French speech. M16.
b. French History. (A title of) a female member of the French royal family, spec. the eldest daughter of the French king or the dauphin (cf. MADEMOISELLE 3). L16.
c. Used as a title (preceding a name) by a businesswoman, fortune-teller, etc., esp. to imply skill and sophistication, or foreign origin. M19.
Joyce The window of Madame Doyle, court dress milliner, stopped him. N. Coward Don't you think, Madame Arcati, that perhaps we've had enough seances?
A woman usually addressed or referred to as 'Madame'; a French married woman; a Frenchman's wife. L16-M18.
? As a title freq. abbreviated to Mme.

Thessaloniki (sh)




formerly Salonika

Seaport (pop., 2001: 363,987), Macedonia, Greece.

Founded in 316 BC, it became the capital of the Roman province of Macedonia in 146 BC and grew to great importance. The apostle Paul (see St. Paul) visited งใ AD 49-50, and he later addressed epistles to converts there. During the time of the Byzantine Empire, it prospered despite repeated attacks by Avars and Slavs. It was part of the Ottoman Empire from 1430 to 1912. Thessaloniki was the headquarters of the Young Turk movement in 1908 and was returned to Greece in 1913. It was an important Allied base in World War I and was occupied by the Germans in World War II. It is Greece's second largest city.