(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.
Woman
Definition:
(n.) An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female person.
(n.) The female part of the human race; womankind.
(n.) A female attendant or servant.
(v. t.) To act the part of a woman in; -- with indefinite it.
(v. t.) To make effeminate or womanish.
(v. t.) To furnish with, or unite to, a woman.
Example Sentences:
(1) The prenatal risk determined by smoking pregnant woman was studied by a fetal electrocardiogram at different gestational ages.
(2) I'm married to an Irish woman, and she remembers in the atmosphere stirred up in the 1970s people spitting on her.
(3) A 66-year-old woman with acute idiopathic polyneuritis (Landry-Guillain-Barré [LGB] syndrome) had normal extraocular movements, but her pupils did not react to light or accommodation.
(4) Abbott also unveiled his new ministry, which confirmed only one woman would serve in the first Abbott cabinet.
(5) The so-called literati aren't insular – this from a woman who ran the security service – but we aren't going to apologise for what we believe in either.
(6) Sterile, pruritic papules and papulopustules that formed annular rings developed on the back of a 58-year-old woman.
(7) The first patient, an 82-year-old woman, developed a WPW syndrome suggesting posterior right ventricular preexcitation, a pattern which persisted for four months until her death.
(8) So too his statement that "in Zulu culture you cannot leave a woman if she is ready.
(9) Tactile stimulation of a coin-sized area in a T-2 dermatome consistently triggered a lancinating pain in the ipsilateral C-8 dermatome in a 38-year-old woman.
(10) A case is presented of a 35-year-old woman who was brought to the emergency service by ambulance complaining of vomiting for 7 days and that she could not hear well because she was 'worn out'.
(11) We present a 40-year-old woman with manifestations of all three disorders.
(12) For the second propositus, a woman presenting with abdominal and psychiatric manifestations, the age of onset was 38 years; the acute attack had no recognizable cause; she had mild skin lesions and initially was incorrectly diagnosed as intermittent acute porphyria; the diagnosis of variegate porphyria was only established at the age of 50 years.
(13) A case of automobile trauma to a pregnant woman at term is presented, and a plan of management involving fetal monitoring is recommended.
(14) Some fundamentals of the causes of diagnostic errors depending upon anatomophysiological and topographo-anatomical peculiarities of woman's organism are given.
(15) A 25-year-old woman presented with a giant leiomyoma in the lower third of the esophagus.
(16) In a Caucasian woman with a history of ocular and pulmonary sarcoidosis, the occurrence of sclerosing peritonitis with exudative ascites but without any of the well-known causes of this syndrome prompts us to consider that sclerosing peritonitis is a manifestation of sarcoidosis.
(17) A 45-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with complaints of fever and lumbago.
(18) Eaton-Lambert or myasthenic syndrome was diagnosed in a young woman with recurrent small-cell carcinoma of the cervix.
(19) No woman is at greater risk for ovarian carcinoma than one who is a member of a hereditary ovarian carcinoma syndrome kindred and whose mother, sister, or daughter has been affected with this disease and with an integrally related hereditary syndrome cancer.
(20) 23 years old woman with sudden deafness and ipsilateral lack of rapid phase caloric nystagmus was described.