madame : Idioms & Phrases
madame curie
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noun French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel prizes; one (with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and polonium (1867-1934)
Marie Curie; Curie; Marya Sklodowska.
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madame de maintenon
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noun French consort of Louis XIV who secretly married the king after the death of his first wife (1635-1719)
Marquise de Maintenon; Francoise d'Aubigne; Maintenon.
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madame de stael
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noun French romantic writer (1766-1817)
Baronne Anne Louise Germaine Necker de Steal-Holstein; Stael.
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madame tussaud
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noun French modeler (resident in England after 1802) who made wax death masks of prominent victims of the French Revolution and toured Britain with her wax models; in 1835 she opened a permanent waxworks exhibition in London (1761-1850)
Marie Grosholtz; Tussaud; Marie Tussaud.
