Also means
beauty-pageant winner
Usage Note
Miss is borrowed from English and used in French as an honorific for an unmarried woman (now rare in formal contexts, replaced by Madame) and as the title given to a pageant winner such as Miss France. It is invariable in plural.
Examples
"Miss France est très connue."
Natural Translation
Miss France is very well known.

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