Yes, milady comes from my lady Milady (from my lady) is an english term of address to a noble woman It is the female form of milord And here's some background on milord Otherwise, as elliot frisch has suggested, lady is the term you want But in my opinion, if you're talking about clients of yours, be gender neutral
Lady can have negative implications in this setting because it is often used in a negative fashion, e.g That lady wouldn't stop talking about. If you are wondering why we don't write ladies's, it is because ladies is one of the exceptions, along with girls', parents', players', weeks' and even klingons' it can get a bit niggly with names too Aristophanes' plays, but jesus's miracles and (usually) james. A kind of delicate way to say that woman looks like a man! in this movie, lady penbroke really couldn't be described as such Even with the getup and everything, she looked classically beautiful. first time i've fallen in love with a woman in a poofy wig.
I have been wondering about this little problem for a while now Everyone understands that, in the binary, the opposite of 'man' is 'woman', and the opposite of 'gentleman' is, namely, 'gentlewoman'. Where did the saying ladies first originate Did it originally appeared in english countries, or And is this always expressed in a positive/polite tune of meaning This seems rather a poor act of classification,.
I tried searching google ngram viewer for look lady and listen lady, both capitalized so as to occur at the start of a sentence, with the hope that these ngrams would reflect the usage of lady in a derogatory/dismissive sense It seems to have come into usage around 1950, and really took off in the late 1990s.
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