mamzelles

Updated: May 8, 2025

They'll have you out o' here before you know it.... Well, I'm goin' out to see what the mamzelles look like." Applebaum, the uniform hanging in folds about his skinny body, swaggered to the door, followed by the envious glances of the whole ward. "Gee, guess he thinks he's goin' to get to be president," said the undertaker bitterly. "He probably will," said Andrews.

John Dos Passos - Three Soldiers

There were good shops in the town "as good as Paris," said soldiers who had never been to Paris, but found these plate-glass windows dazzling, after trench life, and loved to see the "mamzelles" behind the counters and walking out smartly, with little high-heeled shoes.

Philip Gibbs - Now It Can Be Told