donzel

[ don-zuhl ]

noun

, Archaic.

1. a young gentleman not yet knighted; squire; page.

Word History and Origins

Origin of donzel¹

1585–95; < Italian donzello < Old Provençal donzel < Vulgar Latin *dom ( i ) nicellus, equivalent to Latin domin ( us ) lord + -cellus diminutive suffix; damsel

Example Sentences

Donzel Cleare of the New York Police Department stood in front of a classroom at Liberation Diploma Plus High School in Coney Island and asked a simple question: “How many of you guys feel that I work for you?”

From New York Times

The 21-year-old men are suspected of gunning down 18-year-old Kenyatta Butler and 19-year-old Donzel Gaines as they sat in their car in a parking lot in San Francisco’s Crocker Amazon neighborhood the morning of March 9.

From Washington Times

Donzel, don′zel, n. a page or squire:—fem.

From Project Gutenberg

He moves before our eyes like the angelic -469-knight in Mantegna's Madonna of the Victory, or like Giorgione's picture of the fair-haired and mail-clad donzel, born to conquer by the might of beauty.

From Project Gutenberg

Rosiclear and Donzel del Phebo, the heroine and hero of the Mirror of Knighthood, a mediæval romance.

From Project Gutenberg