"madams" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is the plural form of "madam," a formal term for a married woman. Example sentence: The madams of the garden party chatted elegantly under the willow tree.
The shift towards advertising and coordinating the sale of sex online means that prostitutes rely less on intermediaries, such as brothels and agencies, pimps and madams.
The first is relentlessly used by Howard French, a veteran American reporter with a Ghanaian wife who has been based in both Africa and China for the New York Times and speaks Chinese, enabling him to converse with an array of Chinese people in Africa, from rugged bricklayers in Zambia and brothel madams in Liberia, to engineers in Mali and farmers in Mozambique.
Resourceful traffickers, madams and pimps responded by pushing low-end sex work underground and infiltrating more up-market hotels, casinos and bars.
Pimps and madams should shudder, too.
After many prosecutions of numbers runners, madams, and politicians, he was convicted of tax evasion in 1941 and served four years in prison.
But I never considered how white resentment toward black madams, saloon keepers, musicians, and prostitutes could erupt into the systematic destruction of mixed-race, but black-run venues.
To the editors and staff of GQ: Sirs and madams, I was confused and, I'll admit, disappointed when I saw the "25 Least Influential People of 2013" list.
But on most days I'm so delighted by the warm welcome the site gives me, the exciting word "free" — it never gets old — and Amazon Prime's many right-this-way-madams that I let myself believe I'm just better and wiser than other Amazon shoppers.
Though not specifically aimed at sex workers, apps such as Healthvana make it easy for buyer and seller to share verified results in sexual-health tests.Moving online means prostitutes need no longer rely on the usual intermediaries brothels and agencies; pimps and madams to drum up business or provide a venue.
Many of the 'madams' now are black but, if you ask the domestic workers, their opinions are the same".
Barely two years earlier, South Africa had been on the brink of racial war, but now the 'madams' in the rich white neighbourhoods were hugging their maids and the no-longer-oppressed were dancing in the streets of Soweto.
