Brewer's: Mademoiselle

(4 syl.). The daughter of Philippe, Duc de Chartres, grandson of Philippe, Duc d'Orléans, brother of Louis XIV.

La Grande Mademoiselle.
The Duchesse de Montpensier, cousin to Louis XIV., and daughter of Gaston. Duc d'Orléns.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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