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[ UK /dˈæmsə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˈdæmzəɫ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a young unmarried woman

How To Use damsel In A Sentence

  • a good deal of comfort in the fact as she sold 7-Cs at $22.50 a pair to behemothian damsels who possessed money in proportion to Myra's beauty. Gigolo
  • This latest fly is based on an earlier marabou tailed damsel nymph that was weighted down with lead wire.
  • We often read about overwrought ladies reaching for their vinaigrettes, or of stalwart heroes reviving a swooning damsel by waving a vinaigrette beneath her nose.
  • It was to suppose a sequency in the conduct of a variable damsel. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
  • A member of the order Protodonata, Meganuera closely resembles and is related to modern dragonflies (Anisoptera) and damselflies (Zygoptera). Archive 2008-05-01
  • Three-spot damselfish are common members of Caribbean reef communities.
  • Then he repaired to a blacksmith, after stripping her and her damsels of their silken apparel and clothing them in raiment of hair-cloth, and bade him make three pairs of iron shackles. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Disguises used by female damselflies to avoid unwanted sexual advances can cause males to seek out their own sex, a new study suggests.
  • The shape of the pronotum (damselflies) and the head (dragonflies) is very important in reproduction, because the male grasps the female around her neck with appendages on the end of his abdomen. Insecta (Aquatic)
  • There is no shortage of choice, a good variety of butterflyfish, an unusual striped damselfish, puffers and a shoal of small barracuda.
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