(n.) A young person, either male or female, of noble or gentle extraction; as, Damsel Pepin; Damsel Richard, Prince of Wales.
(n.) A young unmarried woman; a girl; a maiden.
(n.) An attachment to a millstone spindle for shaking the hopper.
Example Sentences:
(1) Juan Sheet from the Plenty kitchen roll advertisements Because the damsel in distress is the consumer, we can now be rescued from absolutely anything: roadside breakdown heroes rescue women (important that it is a woman) on dimly lit backstreets, sure, but beer can also come to the rescue of thirst, washing powder to the rescue of parents, gravy granules to the rescue of Sunday lunch.
(2) She has played middling singers and capricious interns, dancers, dreamers and damsels in distress, and she has done so with such ease and abandon that the actor and her alter egos have a tendency to blur.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Grappling with grouper … diving off Garajau beach I tried scuba-diving from Garajau beach in Caniço; the clear water of this protected marine reserve is teeming with big, friendly mero (grouper) and surprisingly tropical-looking fish, such as rainbow wrasse and damsel fish.
(4) "Back in the 1960s I broke down in the Mersey Tunnel and was towed out by Everton's ginger haired genius and his namesake dad," writes Jim Lynch, who probably shouldn't be described as a damsel.
(5) When they're not 7ft-tall high-heeled dominatrix killers, women in games tend to be saucy background-dressing or yelping damsels in distress.
(6) In his office hangs a sketch of a knight on horseback rescuing two damsels in distress – Alliance & Leicester and Bradford & Bingley.
(7) Yes, as far back as 1984 The Terminator gave us a groundbreaking action heroine in Linda Hamilton, but the bouffe-haired damsel in distress was still confined to the here and now, chased by one time-traveller and bedded by the other (in order to give birth to a future saviour).
(8) Doge running out of a burning building with a damsel in distress in his paws, after killing a baddie and saving a whole town with the exclamation of "Much hero!
(9) As it stands now, the mayor has not slain any dragons or rescued any damsels in distress and everybody's looking for a hero,” said political analyst Greg Bowens.
(10) On the cover, a satanic figure grips a silky-tressed damsel in distress.
(11) It has been said that women are not hard-wired to respond to damsels in distress in the same way men are, so all this "white dress scorned virgin" stuff can get a bit lost on us.
(12) People have this problem with Brunhilda as a damsel in distress, but I say she is.
(13) Luckily Ross is there, alighting from the bandstand to scoop up the distressed damsel and keep her moving among the other pairs, saved from embarrassment.
(14) Tamara Prokovna isn't the token love interest, however, or some kind of damsel in distress: she's a vital character in her own right, intrinsic to the main plot, not to mention extremely handy behind the wheel of a supercharged Mercedes.
(15) The damsel in distress and the hero product Everything from kitchen roll to chocolate bars has been cast in the role of hero, riding in to save the day and banish the fear.
(16) For the damsel in distress shopping around for a nose like the one seen advertised in a painting by Botticelli.
(17) For all that, I keep coming back to her delirious turn as Violet in Whit Stillman’s Damsels in Distress .
(18) And, at the same time, our hero miraculously appeared to save his damsel in distress.
(19) And Alan Ball has also ridden to the rescue of a damsel in distress.
(20) I wish that Brave had been around when I was a little girl, to show me an alternative to all those big-skirted damsels in distress, with their "some day my prince will come" and their serenading of small mammals.
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 .