Definition of "damoiselle" [damoiselle]

• Archaic Variant of damosel. (noun)

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• "This time all three acts were paired with a work from Debussy – Act I with Printemps, Act II with Trois Nocturnes, and Act III with La damoiselle élue."
• "What think you, damoiselle, at the coronation, in that same year ’61, it was she who made the bed for the chief of the bawdies!"
• "And when the holy monks had prayed for her a good while, then this damoiselle arose up all whole, and demanded why they wept and made so much sorrow."