Definition of "damsels" []

• Plural form of damsel. (noun)

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• "’ The wenches looked on him very earnestly, and did search with their eyes for the visage, which his ill-fashioned beaver did conceal; but when they heard themselves termed damsels, a thing so far from their profession, they could not contain their laughter, which was so loud, as Don Quixote waxed ashamed thereat; and therefore said to them: ‘Modesty is a comely ornament of the beautiful, and the excessive laughter that springs from a light occasion must be reputed great folly."
• "And isn't the idea of damsels in distress kind of outmoded anyway?"
• "I came to the top of the wall; lo! four damsels were there, who said to me, ‘Descend and welcome and joy to thee!’"