damsel
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British, America) IPA: /ˈdæmzəl/
damsel (plural damsels)
- A young woman of noble birth.
- A girl; a maiden without sexual experience.
- A young woman who is not married.
- An unmarried lady-in-waiting.
- A chattering damsel qual component of a mill.
- 1843, The Magazine of Science, and Schools of Art (volume 4, page 263)
- The spout that conveys the grain from the hopper to the eye or centre of the upper millstone rests against the spindle, just at the damsel, and thus receives an alternate back and forward motion, […]
- 1843, The Magazine of Science, and Schools of Art (volume 4, page 263)
- Portuguese: donzela
- Russian: ба́рышня
- French: demoiselle, jeune femme, jeune fille
- German: Mädchen, Jungfrau
- Portuguese: donzela
- Russian: деви́ца
- Spanish: doncella, muchacha
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