(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.
Maid
Definition:
(n.) An unmarried woman; usually, a young unmarried woman; esp., a girl; a virgin; a maiden.
(n.) A man who has not had sexual intercourse.
(n.) A female servant.
(n.) The female of a ray or skate, esp. of the gray skate (Raia batis), and of the thornback (R. clavata).
Example Sentences:
(1) However, by day 21 after Giardia infection, mice with MAIDS failed to clear the Giardia cysts from the intestine while the control mice were completely free of cysts.
(2) Riyadh recently rejected demands from Manila for medical insurance for maids and for information on employers to be supplied before their departure.
(3) In his 1934 work English Journey, Priestley spoke of three Englands: the so-called "real, enduring England", which spoke to Boyle's bucolic "Jerusalem" opening with its maypoles and cricket, maids and mummery.
(4) It is the England that then prime minister John Major vowed would never vanish in a famous 1993 speech: “Long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and – as George Orwell said – ‘old maids bicycling to holy communion through the morning mist’.” Major was mining Orwell’s wartime essay The Lion and the Unicorn, whose tone was one of reassurance – the national culture will survive, despite everything: “The gentleness, the hypocrisy, the thoughtlessness, the reverence for law and the hatred of uniforms will remain, along with the suet puddings and the misty skies.” Orwell and Major were both asserting the strength of a national culture at times when Britishness – for both men basically Englishness – was felt to be under threat from outside dangers (war, integration into Europe).
(5) Frequencies of prestimulation calcium-positive cells among both CD4+ and CD8+ cells in mice with MAIDS were significantly higher than those for uninfected mice.
(6) He was by this time married to Ethel, daughter of the Chichester Cathedral sacristan, and had already committed adultery with their maid-of-all-work Lizzie.
(7) • Where to stay: Ipanema Penthouse (three-bedroom flats from $250 a night, including maid service).
(8) In 2010 Liliane Peretz, a maid, who had worked for the couple for six years, took a case to the Israeli labour court alleging she had been humiliated and that the prime minister's wife had insisted she change her clothing during the day to remain hygienic.
(9) Recently, a murine retrovirus (LpBM5 MuLV), which induces immunodeficiency syndrome in mice, termed MAIDS, has been found to have several features similar to those seen in human acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).
(10) Lena Baker, a black maid, was executed in 1945 after being convicted in a one-day trial of killing her white employer.
(11) Although MAIDS and AIDS are not identical and are induced by retroviruses of different classes, the availability of such a model in an easily accessible small animal species, whose genetics is very sophisticated, may be instrumental in understanding the pathogenesis of AIDS if some of the cellular and molecular affected pathways are common in both diseases.
(12) The types of food presented were significantly associated with the nationality of the maid.
(13) One company spokesman points out that otherwise "these women would be in the fields, in ship-breaking or shrimp farming, working as maids".
(14) You need to be very careful who you let in, that's why it's very important to have a maid.
(15) When you tire of that, you can pay Candy Fruit Refresh maids to clean your ears – or even just talk to you.
(16) Penetrance of resistance to disease associated with expression of H-2Dd was markedly influenced by MHC genes mapping to the left of H-2D and by non-MHC loci such that some strains bearing this gene were highly susceptible to MAIDS.
(17) The variables with a significant coefficient of association with early termination of breast feeding were maternal education, past experience with breast feeding, help of a maid, help with housework provided by a relative, breast feeding orientation during prenatal care and encouragement from the husband.
(18) The maid, Monika, "the prime originator" of Freud's neurosis, seduced him, chastised him, and taught him of hell.
(19) Perhaps Mrs Patmore would get her hand stuck in the new electric mixer, or footmen Alfred and Jimmy's rivalry would come to a head with some gloves-off fisticuffs – certainly not the brutal rape of lady's maid and viewers' favourite Anna Bates .
(20) The corporation said the third series of the show would see Robin Hood return "older and tougher" and "hellbent on revenge" following the murder of Maid Marian by Gisborne and the failure of the Sheriff of Nottingham, played by Keith Allen, to kill Prince John.