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plural Misses or Mlles
Form of address, now used chiefly for an unmarried woman; used chiefly of girls before the mid-1700s, and thereafter used also of adult women without regard to marital status. quotations examples
She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.
1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 6, in Mr. Pratt's Patients
Form of address for a teacher or a waitress. examples