单词 | damoiseau |
释义 | damoiseaun. Obsolete or archaic. A young man of gentle birth, not yet made a knight. (Occurring in 15th cent. translations from French, and in modern archaists.) ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > knight > squire > [noun] squirec1290 damoiseau1477 esquire1477 donzel1592 1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 5 The damoiseau Iason. c1500 Melusine (1895) 125 Two yong & fayre damoyseaulx brethren..‘Frende’, said the damoyselle, ‘be they so fayre damoyseaux as ye say?’ 1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise I. i. 194 So thou, O damoiseau, must wait; Tie up thine horse anigh the gate. 1872 E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. 190 The aspirant for knighthood was supposed to pass his life between 7 and 14 as a page..figuring during the next 7 years as a Damoiseau or Esquire. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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