What's the difference between damoiselle and demoiselle?
Damoiselle
Definition:
(n.) See Damsel.
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Demoiselle
Definition:
(n.) A young lady; a damsel; a lady's maid.
(n.) The Numidian crane (Anthropoides virgo); -- so called on account of the grace and symmetry of its form and movements.
(n.) A beautiful, small dragon fly of the genus Agrion.
Example Sentences:
(1) In that context, the amount paid for late-career work like Women of Algiers is probably a good investment; while it has nowhere near the raw energy of early masterpieces such as Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907) or the significance of mid-career icons such as Guernica (1937), in an international market where the artist’s name casts a spell on potential buyers, it’s a respectable piece that can be immediately identified as a “Picasso”.
(2) A woman who sports Chanel dreams of being a chic Parisian demoiselle.
(3) +33 2 3347 2272 wheretonext Languedoc-Roussillon Les Demoiselles de Dupuy, Bouzigues Les Demoiselles de Dupuy, Bouzigues At Les Demoiselles de Dupuy, you sit with your feet lapped by the salt waters of the Étang de Thau.
(4) Species of Anthropoides, Bugeranus, and Grus clustered closely but sorted into two lineages: a Whooper Group consisted of the whooping, common, hooded, black-necked, white-naped, and red-crowned cranes of genus Grus; and a Sandhill Group included the Sandhill, Siberian, Sarus, and Brolga cranes of genus Grus, the wattled crane of genus Bugeranus, and the Demoiselle and blue cranes of genus Anthropoides.
(5) +33 5 5672 3434, cafedelaliberte.fr pandsmiles • This article was corrected on 13 March 2013 to show the correct photo of Les Demoiselles de Dupuy.
(6) Kendall, in his recent exhibition of Picasso and Degas, sees the sculpture as the model for one of the figures in Picasso's 1906 Demoiselles d'Avignon .
(7) Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon and other “primitivist” works he did in 1906 and 1907 give Modigliani’s woman her mask-like gaze and geometrical frankness, Matisse’s 1907 Blue Nude (Souvenir de Biskra) her flamboyant display and raunchy hips.
(8) Males of the demoiselle Chromis dispilus (a species endemic to New Zealand) were hand-netted from nest territories by scuba divers and blood sampled in situ.
(9) There is Les Demoiselles d’Avignon , the 1907 Cubist painting that fundamentally changed art and is a star attraction in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and there is Guernica, his vast Spanish civil war history painting which is in the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid .