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dam⋅sel

  [dam-zuhl]
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–noun Literary.
a young woman or girl; a maiden, originally one of gentle or noble birth.
Origin:
1150–1200; ME damisel < AF (OF damoisele) < VL *dominicella, equiv. to L domin(a) lady (see dame ) + -i- -i- + -cella fem. dim. suffix
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dam·sel   (dām'zəl)   
n.  A young woman or girl; a maiden.

[Middle English damisele, from Old French dameisele, damoiselle, from Vulgar Latin *dominicella, diminutive of domina, lady; see dame.]
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Damsel

Dam"sel\, n. [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.]

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

2. A young unmarried woman; a girl; a maiden.

With her train of damsels she was gone, In shady walks the scorching heat to shun. --Dryden.

Sometimes a troop of damsels glad, . . . Goes by to towered Camelot. --Tennyson.

3. (Milling) An attachment to a millstone spindle for shaking the hopper.
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Language Translation for : damsel
Spanish: damisela, doncella,
German: junges Mädchen,
Japanese: 少女
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damsel 
1199, from O.Fr. dameisele, modified by association with dame from earlier donsele, from Gallo-Romance *domnicella, dim. of L. domina "lady" (see dame). Archaic until revived by romantic poets, along with 16c.-17c. variant form damozel.
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