| 词汇 | ladies and gentlemen |
| 词源 | Ladies and gentlemen. Ladies and gentlemen, as a form of address to a mixed audience, used to be the reverse: It was tra- ditional to say “gentlemen and ladies.” The change, putting la- dies first, came in early America and first took place in the North, not in the chivalrous South. |
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