Meaning & use
damsel
An old-fashioned or literary word for a young, unmarried woman.
See it in a sentence
In the fairy tale, a brave knight rescues the damsel from the tower.
The old ballad tells of a damsel waiting faithfully for her lover's return.
A note on using this word
Damsel survives mainly in the phrase damsel in distress and in fairy tales; it sounds archaic in everyday modern speech.
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