Definition of "milord" [mi•lord]

• An English nobleman or gentleman. (noun)
• Used as a form of address for such a man. (noun)

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• ""She thought, no doubt, that the milord was about to expire; and there is nothing, they say, which women abhor so much as to touch dead bodies.""
• "They'd gotten far enough away that they were out of sight among the tombs, and by now Jass and his employer would have gone their separate ways, with nothing to show the connection between them, nothing to prove that "milord" wasn't just paying a sentimental or pious visit on the anniversary of someone's death."
• "There were only two entrances, and he thought he knew which one "milord" would take."