a title or form of address for a woman, formerly for a married woman and now commonly for any adult woman regardless of marital status, used both in direct and third-person address / madam, Mrs. or Ms. / lady, woman / the female employer of a domestic servant

Alternative letter-case form of madame

(food) croque-madame

Mrs. Watanabe (personification of the Japanese housewife speculators)

the average homemaker / a relatively unsophisticated user of technology

(informal) know-it-all

plural of croque-madame

Alternative form of mesdames