Title applied to many a nice woman (6)

I believe the answer is:

milady

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'woman' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?

'title applied to many a nice' is the wordplay.
'title' becomes 'lady' (I have seen 'Female title ' mean 'lady' so perhaps 'title' could also mean 'lady').
'applied to' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'many' becomes 'M' (Roman numeral for a thousand).
'a nice' becomes 'i' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'm'+'i'='mi'
'lady' put after 'mi' is 'MILADY'.

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