Sep 22, 2011 · Yes, milady comes from "my lady". Milady (from my lady) is an English term of address to a noble woman. It is the female form of milord. And here's some background on …

Feb 22, 2019 · The plural possessive is "ladies'." "Lady" is singular, so if you were referring solely to one woman's shoes, it would be "the lady's shoes." As for your second question, I'm …

Having heard the phrase, "faint heart never won fair lady" for the third time in very short span, I'm determined to find out its origin. Unfortunately, when I Google, I'm getting a bunch of low-q...

May 8, 2024 · I think there should be commas in it - 'lady, wife [or] mistress of a household' . The phrase means 'the lady of the house', but in the context of the derivation of the surname …

For work-place specific gender-neutral politically-correct terms refer to the answer by @third-news. Otherwise, as Elliot Frisch has suggested, lady is the term you want. But in my opinion, …

A kind of delicate way to say "that woman looks like a man!" In this movie, Lady Penbroke really couldn't be described as such; even with the getup and everything, she looked "classically …

Jun 2, 2023 · From my research it looks as though "lady" was originally pejorative . It's etymology is mostly hypothesized, but consensus puts emergence of the word circa 1200. The word lady …

Jul 19, 2023 · Idiomatically, it is gentleman. Lady comes from an Old English compound noun meaning roughly "loaf kneader," whereas lord comes from a compound noun meaning "loaf …

Apr 28, 2014 · I've been wondering. Where did the saying "Ladies first" originate? Did it originally appeared in English countries, or? And is this always expressed in a positive/polite tune of …

Nov 22, 2010 · In case you don't know, in British English, the little red-with-black-spots insect is not called a "ladybug", as in North America, but a "ladybird". This seems rather a poor act of …