See quot. 1845.

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1837.  Marm Pugwash is as onsartin in her temper as a mornin in April; its all sunshine or all clouds with her, and if she’s in one of her tantrums, she’ll stretch out her neck and hiss, like a goose with a flock of goslins.—Haliburton, ‘The Clockmaker,’ i. x. (N.E.D.)

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1844.  Madam Bradshaw was evidently displeased…. Caroline Freeman replied, “Ma’ Bradshaw, I have not yet spoken.”—‘Lowell Offering,’ iv. 191.

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1845.  The title of Madam is sometimes given here, and generally in Charleston, S.C., and the South, to a mother whose son is married, and the daughter in law is then called Mrs.—Sir Charles Lyell, ‘Second Visit to the U.S.,’ i. 129 (N.Y., 1855).

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1867.  

        Obed, you pick ’em out o’ sight an’ sound,
Your ma’am don’t love no feathers cluttrin’ round.
Lowell, ‘Fitz-Adam’s Story’: Atlantic Monthly, Jan.    

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