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damsel Definition

dam·sel (damzəl)

noun

Now Literary a girl; maiden

Etymology: damesele < OFr dameisele < VL *dominicella, dim. of L domina: see dame

damsel Synonyms

damsel

n.

maiden, maid, nymph; see girl 1, lady 3, woman 1.

damsel Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • rescue: Make your way through three huge levels to rescue the damsel in distress!
  • save: And he saved a damsel in distress in a wine bar from a group of lustful men [ eh?
  • say: Say, damsel, hast a mind recluse to be?
  • play: Michael Jeter was in The Fisher King, playing the memorable damsel in distress in Central Park.
  • see: Banded Demoiselle - Have you seen this damsel near you?
  • find: But ' Aisha found the light-hearted damsel with no desire to wed the aged Caliph.

Adjective modifier

  • fair: Sellers: The part of Maid Marion is still being played by Miss Mitchell The Sheriff: Fair damsel, pray do not sulk.
  • beautiful: With the beautiful damsel in distress, Elizabeth, who has been kidnaped by the Pirate Captain, aboard, the chase begins.
  • young: Two young damsels round it off: one a ferociously boiling Italian; next, a tough English prisoner in a tower.
  • blue: The Common blue damsel is identified by the black ' spot ' seen in the lower image.
  • bright: A moorhen clucked, distant sheep bleated and bright blue damsel flies fornicated elegantly in front of me.
  • helpless: Although Frank is the muscle, Riley is no helpless damsel in distress.

Modifies a noun

  • nymph: Artificial damsel nymphs can be fished with faster pulls than you'd use with smaller nymphs.
  • fly: Damsel flies are also present in large numbers during the season.
  • fish: Tangs and parrot fish graze on the algae alongside damsel fish, butterfly and angel fish, grunts, goat fish and hog fish.

Noun used with modifier

  • rescue: By day they would hunt deer and rescue damsels in distress Then they would drink splendid wine to recover from the stress.
  • fairy: Immediately his eye fell on one of the fairy damsels, whose beauty was beyond anything he had ever seen in a human being.
  • tip: Including:- 20kg living rock 20kg ocean rock yellow wrasse blue chromis yellow tip damsel.. .

Preposition: in

  • distress: Like Brendan Frazer says in the role, " Rescue the damsel in distress, kill the bad guy, save the world.

Preposition: with

  • dulcimer: A damsel with a dulcimer in a vision once I saw.
damsel Quotes

A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw: It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abora.

—Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

   'That isthe Ladye of the Lake,'seyde Merlion.'There ys a grete roche, and therein ys as fayre a paleyce as ony on erthe, and rychely besayne. And thys damesel woll come to you anone, and than speke ye fayre to hir, that she may gyff you that swerde.'

—Malory, SirThomas   d.1471

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