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Damosel

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Archaic A young woman; a damsel.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Obsolete spelling of damsel.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. See damsel.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. See damsel.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a young unmarried woman

Word Usage

"There is not one of you who knows not how precious every hour of peace is at this moment, when so necessary to heal the wounds of a distracted country; yet there is not one of you who would not rush into war on account of the tale of a wandering gipsy, or of some errant damosel, whose reputation, perhaps, is scarce higher. —"

Equivalent

damosella damoiselle

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

maid maiden

Variant

damsel

Same Context

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