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It remains in use colloquially ; for example, as a counterpart to " gentleman ," in the phrase "ladies and gentlemen," a...

White's anecdote touches on a phenomenon that others have remarked on as well. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century , in ...

In more recent years, usage of the word lady is even more complicated. Remarks made by the journalist William Allen White in his 1946 au...

"Lady" is also the customary title of the wife of a baronet or knight ; the proper title, now only used in legal documents or on...

In the case of sons of a duke or marquess , who by courtesy have "Lord" prefixed to their given and family name, the wife is know...