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Messrs

Monsieur \Mon*sieur"\, n.; pl. Messieurs. [F., fr. mon my + Sieur, abbrev. of seigneur lord. See Monseigneur.]

  1. The common title of civility in France in speaking to, or of, a man; Mr. or Sir. [Represented by the abbreviation M. or Mons. in the singular, and by MM. or Messrs. in the plural.]

  2. The oldest brother of the king of France.

  3. A Frenchman. [Contemptuous]
    --Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
messrs

abbreviation of messieurs (1620s), which is the French monsieur (see monsieur).

Usage examples of "messrs".

Of these one firm, namely, Messrs Guinness, owning the largest brewery in the world, brewed upwards of two million barrels, paying a sum of, roughly, one million sterling to the revenue.

The future of anatomy and physiology, as an enthusiastic micrologist of the time said, was in the hands of Messrs.

Messrs Rattler and Roby,--who have been wrong before and may be wrong now,--we may lose the second reading.

In the eastern Arunta tribe, indeed, it is said that sometimes a little wooden vessel used in camp for holding small objects may be buried with the man, but this is the only instance which Messrs.

The discomfort of the drive back to Asmara would be greatly reduced by the superb upholstery and suspension designed by Messrs Rolls and Royce and would be more than adequietely offset by the quasi-civilized amenities of the town.

Hastily, before the Eastern front, the position around Bialystok for instance, can come up, action is taken: hapazardly the assassin puts the brief case with contents under the card table, on which lie the general staff maps with their complicated markings, around which Messrs.

Lee-Metfords that had survived the Anglo Boer war, alesser number of German Mausers salvaged from his encounters with Askari across the Rovuma, and a very few of the expensive hand-made doubles by Gibbs and Messrs Greener of London.

Great Britain, and in this connexion the process introduced by Messrs Allsopp exhibits many features of interest.

Without mentioning it to De la Haye, I wrote to my three friends, Messrs.

Chubb acting as champions of the English lockmakers is something like seeing Messrs.

I have seen the dish named in a French bill of fare, translated by a French pastrycook for the benefit of his English customers,--when sent in from Messrs Stewam and Sugarscraps even with their best exertions.

Now in the middle of 1943 your Messrs Sweets and Lamberts seem to have attained the highest pinnacle of prestige and achievement.

In other cases we have the plainest evidence in great fossilised trees, still standing upright as they grew, of many long intervals of time and changes of level during the process of deposition, which would never even have been suspected, had not the trees chanced to have been preserved: thus, Messrs.

At an early date the mealworms also pave the way for the crucial interview be tween Messrs.

His vacillations between law and medicine lasted so long that midsummer arrived before he finally separated from Mr. Badger and entered on an experimental course of Messrs.