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damsel


1. A young person, either male or female, of noble or gentle extraction; as, Damsel Pepin; Damsel Richard, Prince of Wales.

2. A young unmarried woman; a gerl; a maiden. "With her train of damsels she was gone, In shady walks the scorching heat to shum." (Dryden) "Sometimes a troop of damsels glad, . . . Goes by to towered Cameleot." (Tennyson)

3. An attachment to a millstone spindle for shaking the hoppe.

Origin: OE. Damosel, damesel, damisel, damsel, fr. OF. Damoisele, damisele, gentlewoman, F. Demoiselle young lady; cf. OF. Damoisel young nobleman, F. Damoiseau; fr. LL. Domicella, dominicella, fem, domicellus, dominicellus, masc, dim. Fr. L. Domina, dominus. See Dame, and cf. Demoiselle, Doncella.

Source: Websters Dictionary