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damoiselle
[ dam-uh-zel ]
damoiselle
/ ˌdæməˈzɛl /
noun
- archaic variants of damsel
Example Sentences
The French damoiselle and demoiselle are later formations.
The damoiselle not only scornfully refused to speak to her lover or acknowledge him, but even seized him by the hair and pulled out a handful.
On this day all came, both high and low; twenty thousand knights sat at the board, and thereto twenty thousand damoiselles, maidens and dames.
Dreams visited his pillow; distorted visions, in which Kirsty, the dark-eyed damoiselle, and the man with the black whiskers, bore prominent parts, flitted across his fancy.
This is followed by a still more magnificent cavalcade, with judges in the fore-ground; and the "dames et damoiselles," in fair array to the right.
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