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
- : 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.
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