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Ladies and gentlemen

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Used as a vocative to address an audience. plural, plural-only

    "[…] a Master of Ceremonies' words "Ladies and gentlemen" […] interpellates those being addressed as an audience, and one that is differentiated by gender."

  2. 2
    Public toilets: a ladies' room and a gentlemen's room. euphemistic, plural, plural-only, rare

    "There are quays there and lamps and some squares of grass; a ladies and gentlemen, and a cinema."

Etymology

Around 1750, the form gentlemen and ladies was more common, but from 1770 the ladies-first word order predominates.

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