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memsahib

/mem-sahb; mem-sah-ib, ‐hib, ‐heeb/US // ˈmɛm sɑb; ˈmɛm sɑ ɪb, ‐hɪb, ‐hib //UK // (ˈmɛmˌsɑːɪb, -hɪb) //

穆斯林,穆斯林教徒,穆斯林的,马萨诸塞州

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a term of respect for a married European woman.

Examples

  • The Collector's memsahib had gone off with the doctor, leaving her little child to the tender mercies of an ayah!

  • The nephew does things very shabbily, and I think the Memsahib must help him.

  • "Memsahib" was heard in every direction, for the arrival of a party of supposedly rich Americans50 had been duly heralded.

  • It was the strange Memsahib, the khansammah observed to himself.

  • Had the memsahib been slain, she had at least died in full view of the English—and there was a battle to be won.