The Collaborative International Dictionary
mem-sahib
memsahib \mem"sa`hib\, mem-sahib \mem"-sa`hib\(m[e^]m"s[aum]`[i^]b), n. [Hind. mem-s[=a]hib; mem (fr. E. ma'am) + Ar. [,c][=a]hib master. See Sahib.] Lady; mistress; -- used by Hindustani-speaking natives in India in addressing European women.
Usage examples of "mem-sahib".
Then Faiz Ali and the false swine Kala Khan, with a great rabble of sepoys and these new heroes of the Rani's guard, fell on the Star Fort, and made themselves masters of the guns and powder, and marched on the cantonment to put it to the fire, but Skene sahib had warning from a true sepoy, and while some dozen sahibs were caught and butchered by these vermin, the rest escaped into the little Town Fort, and the mem-sahibs and little ones with them, and made it good against the mutineers.