damseln.

Brit.

/ˈdamz(ə)l/, U.S.

/ˈdæmzəl/

Forms: α. Middle English dameisele, Middle English damaisele, Middle English dammaisele, Middle English damaysele, Middle English damayselle; β. Middle English–1500s damesel, damesele, dameselle, damysel, damysele, damyselle, damisel, damiselle, Middle English dammisel, Scottish damyseill, 1500s Scottish damicel, damicell; γ. Middle English–1600s damsell, 1500s– damsel; δ. Middle English–1500s damoysele, damoysel, damoisele, damoisel, (1800s damoiselle); ε. 1500s–1600s (1800s) damosel, damoselle, damozel(l, damozelle, (1500s damusel); ζ. 1600s dam'zell, 1600s–1700s dam'sel.

Etymology: Early Middle English dameisele , damaisele , < Old French dameisele (damisele ) (12th cent.), later damoisele, -elle (the only form in Cotgrave), demoiselle (14th cent.). The Old French dameisele was a new formation < dame , instead of the popular danzele , dansele , doncele = Provençal donsela , Italian donzella , Spanish doncella < late Latin *dominicella , medieval Latin domnicella , domicella , diminutive of domina mistress, lady, feminine of dominus lord. (There is a 10th cent. French instance of the learned form domnizelle .) In English the middle syllable was reduced < ei (ai ), to i , ĕ , and finally disappeared. The variant damoiselle was introduced in 15th cent. from Parisian French (by Lydgate, Caxton, etc.), and gave rise here to damosel , damozel , so frequent in 16–17th cent., and affected in 19th cent. in sense 1. See also donzel n. N.E.D. (1894) enters this under the double headword damsel, damosel and gives the pronunciation as (dæ·mozel) /ˈdæmɒzɛl/.

I. A young woman.

1. A young unmarried lady; originally one of noble or gentle birth, but gradually extended as a respectful appellation to those of lower rank. Now merged in sense 2; but modern poets and romantic writers (led by Sir W. Scott) have recalled the 16–17th century damosel, damozel, to express a more stately notion than is now conveyed by damsel.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > nobility > [noun] > noble person or man > noblewoman > young or unmarried

damselc1290

demoisellec1480

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > unmarried person(s) > unmarried woman > [noun] > young unmarried woman > of noble birth

damselc1290

α.

1292 Britton i. xix. §5 Des enfauntz madles, damaysels et vedues.]

c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 84/37 Þe Iustise bi-heold þat maide..‘Dameisele,’ he seide, ‘ȝwat art þou?’

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 1492 Þe nobloste damaisele þat was in eni londe.

a1450 Knt. de la Tour cxx. 166 The yonge damayselle, the whiche the knight hadde refused.

β. c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 2103 Þan hym spak duk Roland..Tak thys damesele by þe hand as þow louest me.c1386 G. Chaucer Nun's Priest's Tale 50 The fairest hiewed..Was cleped fayre damysel Pertilote.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3837 Iacob lifted vp þe sten, And spak þan wit þe damisel.a1440 Sir Degrev. 623 To chyrche the gay dammisel Buskede hyr ȝare.a1500 Lancelot of Laik (1870) 2351 Sche had no knycht, sche had no damyseill.γ. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 7887 A damsell faire, Þat bright was of ble, and Breisaid she hight.1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης xxi. 184 The Damsell of Burgundie [sc. the Duchess].1710 ‘J. Touchwood’ Quixote Redivivus 9 [He] took..the very Scrubs of both Sexes for Knights and Damsels.1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 586 Damsels of the best families in the town wove colours for the insurgents.δ. c1400 Rom. Rose 1622 These damoysels & bachelers.1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 6 Princes barones and knightes ladies & damoiselles ete in the halle.1549 T. Chaloner tr. Erasmus Praise of Folie sig. Oiij^v Amonges the damoysels and Madames of the court.1557 Malory's Story Noble & Worthy Kynge Arthur (Copland) i. xvii There came a damoysell..a passyng fayre damisel.1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. I. 357 Those romances of chivalry..long formed the favourite reading of the noble, the dame and the damoiselle.] ε. c1300 K. Alis. 171 Ladies and damoselis Maken heom redy.1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ix. 9 All knyghtes ought to ayd to theyr powers all ladyes and damozels.1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccxiii. 264 They rode about the countrey, and vysited the ladies and dumasels [elsewhere damozelles, dammuselles].1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxl The yonge Princes and Damosell of Burgoyne.1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. i. sig. N^v Th'aduenture of the Errant damozell.1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 215 Hercules..walking along the shore with a Damosel, whom he loued.1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain Introd. viii. 11 Of errant knight and damozelle.1871 D. G. Rossetti Blessed Damozel (rev. ed.) i, in Poems The blessed damozel leaned out From the gold bar of Heaven.1884 F. M. Crawford Rom. Singer (ed. 2) I. 256 Your boy wants to marry a noble damosel.

2. A young unmarried woman (without any connotation of rank or respect—sometimes even slightingly); a maid, maiden, girl, country lass.Since 17th cent., archaic and literary or playful; not in ordinary spoken use.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > young person > young woman > [noun]

daughterOE

maidenOE

young womanOE

mayc1175

burdc1225

maidc1275

wenchc1290

file1303

virginc1330

girla1375

damselc1380

young ladya1393

jilla1425

juvenclec1430

young person1438

domicellea1464

quean1488

trull1525

pulleta1533

Tib1533

kittyc1560

dell1567

gillian1573

nymph1584

winklota1586

frotion1587

yuffrouw1589

pigeon1592

tit1599

nannicock1600

muggle1608

gixy1611

infanta1611

dilla1627

tittiea1628

whimsy1631

ladykin1632

stammel1639

moggie1648

zitellaa1660

baggagea1668

miss1668

baby1684

burdie1718

demoiselle1720

queanie?1800

intombi1809

muchacha1811

jilt1816

titter1819

ragazza1827

gouge1828

craft1829

meisie1838

sheila1839

sixteenc1840

chica1843

femme1846

muffin1854

gel1857

quail1859

kitten1870

bud1880

fräulein1883

sub-debutante1887

sweet-and-twenty1887

flapper1888

jelly1889

queen1894

chick1899

pusher1902

bit of fluff1903

chicklet1905

twist and twirl1905

twist1906

head1913

sub-deb1916

tabby1916

mouse1917

tittie1918

chickie1919

wren1920

bim1922

nifty1923

quiff1923

wimp1923

bride1924

job1927

junior miss1927

hag1932

tab1932

sort1933

palone1934

brush1941

knitting1943

teenybopper1966

weeny-bopper1972

Valley Girl1982

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > unmarried person(s) > unmarried woman > [noun] > young unmarried woman

mayc1175

girla1375

damselc1380

miss1668

intombi1809

β.

c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 9 To geten þe stynkyng loue of damyselis.

1483 Cath. Angl. 89 Damesselle..nimpha.

1558 J. Knox First Blast against Monstruous Regiment Women f. 55^v Aged fathers and tendre damiselles.

1568 Christis Kirk on Grene in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) II. 262 To dans thir damysellis thame dicht Thir lassis licht of laitis.

γ. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Zech. viii. 5 Yonge boyes and damselles, playnge vpon the stretes.1693 W. Congreve Old Batchelour iii. i. 22 Good Words, Damsel, or I shall ——.1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 278. ⁋2 You will not deny your Advice to a distressed Damsel.1832 W. Irving Alhambra II. 139 Awed and abashed in the presence of a simple damsel of fifteen.1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood viii. 47 The two young men, having seen the damsels..enter the courtyard of the Nuns' House.ε. a1529 J. Skelton Why come ye nat to Courte (?1545) 209 With Dalyda to mell, That wanton damozell.1576 Act 18 Eliz. c. 7 §1 Of Women, Maids, Wives and Damosels.1611 Bible (King James) Mark v. 39, 41 The damosell is not dead, but sleepeth..Damosell (I say vnto thee), arise.1642 D. Rogers Naaman 7 A poore damosell and captive.1704 J. Pitts True Acct. Mohammetans v. 27 The Father of the Damosel usually makes up the Match.ζ. 1632 F. Quarles Divine Fancies iii. vii Dam'sel arise? When death had clos'd her eyes, What power had the Dam'sel to arise?1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity ii, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 442 And one mad Dam'sel dares dispute my pow'r.

†3. A maid in waiting, a female attendant. Originally a young lady of gentle birth, as maid of honour or waiting-woman to a lady of rank; but gradually extended downward. Now Obsolete except as merged in sense 2.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [noun] > female

thuftena1100

handmaidc1300

damselc1330

maid womanc1330

handmaidenc1350

handwomana1382

foot maid?a1475

foot maidenc1480

waiting-woman1565

waitressc1595

waiter1639

attendressa1661

1199 Rot. Chartarum 25/2 Beatriciae et Aeliciae domicellis praedictae reginae sororis nostrae.]

c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 618 Felice the feir answerd þo [to her maid]: ‘Damisel’, sche seyd, ‘whi seistow so?’

1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. ix. 12 Dobet is hir damoisele [C. xi. 138 damesele] sire doweles douȝter To serue þis lady lelly.

1490 Caxton's Blanchardyn & Eglantine (1962) ix. 39 A goode auncyent damoysell whiche dyde norisshe her of her brestys..called her nouryce and maystresse.

1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte Exam. Mens Wits x. 130 He sent his damsels [ancillas suas] to call to the Castle.

1649 F. Roberts Clavis Bibliorum (ed. 2) 387 His friends and her Damosels, being the foure speakers.

1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. i. 8 A slender Young waiting Damsel to attend her.

1833 H. Martineau Loom & Lugger ii. v. 100 The terrified kitchen damsels.

II. transferred.

4. A hot iron for warming a bed.Apparently a humorous allusion to 1 Kings i. 1–4.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > devices for warming bed

bedpan1572

warming-pan1574

froe1594

hot-water bottle1636

damsel1728

nun1728

water bottle1771

hot bottle1836

bottle1857

pig1869

bed-bottle1907

bed-warmer1931

hotty1947

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Damsel,..a kind of Utensil put in Beds, to warm old Mens Feet withal. It consists of a hot Iron inclosed in a hollow Cylinder, which is wrap'd round with linnen Cloth... Some call it a Nun.

a1843 R. Southey Common-place Bk. (1851) 4th Ser. 434/1 A hot iron for warming old men's feet is called a Damsel, or Nun.

5. A projection on the spindle of a mill-stone for shaking the shoot.

ΚΠ

1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down Damsel, an iron rod with projecting pins, that shakes the shoot of the hopper in a corn mill.

1880 R. Jefferies Round about Great Estate 167 Tibbald, of course, had his joke about that part of the [mill] machinery which is called the ‘damsel’.

Compounds

C1. attributive, as damsel train, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > service > servant > retainer or follower > [noun] > collective or retinue > of maids in waiting

damsel train1594

1594 T. Lodge & R. Greene Looking Glasse sig. A4^v Ile send for all the Damosell Queenes..To wait as hand-maides on Remelia.

1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 721 Her harbinger, a damsel train behind.

1726 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey V. xxiii. 46 At his nod the damsel train descends.

C2.

damsel-errant n. feminine of knight-errant (Scott, after Spenser's ‘errant Damozell’ in 1590 at sense 1ε. ).

ΚΠ

1821 W. Scott Kenilworth II. xiii. 329 If any man shall find me playing squire of the body to a damosel-errant.

damsel-fish n. a small brightly-coloured fish of the family Pomacentridæ.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Percoidei > [noun] > family Pomacentridae > member of (damsel-fish)

Beau-gregory1847

coral-fish1880

goldfish1882

demoiselle1884

Garibaldi1885

damsel-fish1905

white-ear1922

anemonefish1924

maomao1926

1905 D. S. Jordan Guide Study of Fishes II. xxii. 381 The Pomacentridæ, called rock-pilots or damsel-fishes, are exclusively marine.

1931 J. R. Norman Hist. Fishes xii. 246 Interesting examples of commensalism occur among the Pomacentrids or Damsel-fishes (Pomacentridae) of tropical coral reefs.

1968 J. E. Randall Caribbean Reef Fishes 189 Many of the damselfishes are highly territorial and pugnacious.

damsel-fly n. the slender dragon-fly Agrion Virgo, and kindred species, called in French demoiselle.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Odonata > suborder Zygoptera > member of

agrion1791

damsel-fly1817

zygopterid1900

1817 T. Moore Lalla Rookh 154 The beautiful blue damsel-flies.

1840 R. Browning Sordello i. 284 Flittered in the cool some azure damsel-fly.

Derivatives

ˈdamselhood n. the condition or age of a damsel, young-womanhood.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > young person > young woman > [noun] > state or quality of being

sweet seventeen1791

young ladyhood1843

young-womanhood1852

young ladyship1856

young ladyishness1867

damselhood1880

flapperhood1905

flapperdom1907

flapperism1909

1880 Daily News 1 July The great majority..had not reached the glory of damselhood; they were simply children.

ˈdamselish adj. of or proper to a damsel (nonce-words).

ΚΠ

1867 Contemp. Rev. 6 363 ‘One of the queene's damsélles’ is set forth as riding about (certainly in a very damselish way) at random..to find the desired champion.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	damsel
释义	damseln. Brit. /ˈdamz(ə)l/, U.S. /ˈdæmzəl/ Forms: α. Middle English dameisele, Middle English damaisele, Middle English dammaisele, Middle English damaysele, Middle English damayselle; β. Middle English–1500s damesel, damesele, dameselle, damysel, damysele, damyselle, damisel, damiselle, Middle English dammisel, Scottish damyseill, 1500s Scottish damicel, damicell; γ. Middle English–1600s damsell, 1500s– damsel; δ. Middle English–1500s damoysele, damoysel, damoisele, damoisel, (1800s damoiselle); ε. 1500s–1600s (1800s) damosel, damoselle, damozel(l, damozelle, (1500s damusel); ζ. 1600s dam'zell, 1600s–1700s dam'sel. Etymology: Early Middle English dameisele , damaisele , < Old French dameisele (damisele ) (12th cent.), later damoisele, -elle (the only form in Cotgrave), demoiselle (14th cent.). The Old French dameisele was a new formation < dame , instead of the popular danzele , dansele , doncele = Provençal donsela , Italian donzella , Spanish doncella < late Latin dominicella , medieval Latin domnicella* , domicella , diminutive of domina mistress, lady, feminine of dominus lord. (There is a 10th cent. French instance of the learned form domnizelle .) In English the middle syllable was reduced < ei (ai ), to i , ĕ , and finally disappeared. The variant damoiselle was introduced in 15th cent. from Parisian French (by Lydgate, Caxton, etc.), and gave rise here to damosel , damozel , so frequent in 16–17th cent., and affected in 19th cent. in sense 1. See also donzel n. N.E.D. (1894) enters this under the double headword damsel, damosel and gives the pronunciation as (dæ·mozel) /ˈdæmɒzɛl/. I. A young woman. 1. A young unmarried lady; originally one of noble or gentle birth, but gradually extended as a respectful appellation to those of lower rank. Now merged in sense 2; but modern poets and romantic writers (led by Sir W. Scott) have recalled the 16–17th century damosel, damozel, to express a more stately notion than is now conveyed by damsel. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > [noun] > noble person or man > noblewoman > young or unmarried damselc1290 demoisellec1480 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > unmarried person(s) > unmarried woman > [noun] > young unmarried woman > of noble birth damselc1290 α. 1292 Britton i. xix. §5 Des enfauntz madles, damaysels et vedues.] c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 84/37 Þe Iustise bi-heold þat maide..‘Dameisele,’ he seide, ‘ȝwat art þou?’ 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 1492 Þe nobloste damaisele þat was in eni londe. a1450 Knt. de la Tour cxx. 166 The yonge damayselle, the whiche the knight hadde refused. β. c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 2103 Þan hym spak duk Roland..Tak thys damesele by þe hand as þow louest me.c1386 G. Chaucer Nun's Priest's Tale 50 The fairest hiewed..Was cleped fayre damysel Pertilote.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3837 Iacob lifted vp þe sten, And spak þan wit þe damisel.a1440 Sir Degrev. 623 To chyrche the gay dammisel Buskede hyr ȝare.a1500 Lancelot of Laik (1870) 2351 Sche had no knycht, sche had no damyseill.γ. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 7887 A damsell faire, Þat bright was of ble, and Breisaid she hight.1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης xxi. 184 The Damsell of Burgundie [sc. the Duchess].1710 ‘J. Touchwood’ Quixote Redivivus 9 [He] took..the very Scrubs of both Sexes for Knights and Damsels.1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 586 Damsels of the best families in the town wove colours for the insurgents.δ. c1400 Rom. Rose 1622 These damoysels & bachelers.1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 6 Princes barones and knightes ladies & damoiselles ete in the halle.1549 T. Chaloner tr. Erasmus Praise of Folie sig. Oiij^v Amonges the damoysels and Madames of the court.1557 Malory's Story Noble & Worthy Kynge Arthur (Copland) i. xvii There came a damoysell..a passyng fayre damisel.1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. I. 357 Those romances of chivalry..long formed the favourite reading of the noble, the dame and the damoiselle.] ε. c1300 K. Alis. 171 Ladies and damoselis Maken heom redy.1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ix. 9 All knyghtes ought to ayd to theyr powers all ladyes and damozels.1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccxiii. 264 They rode about the countrey, and vysited the ladies and dumasels [elsewhere damozelles, dammuselles].1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxl The yonge Princes and Damosell of Burgoyne.1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. i. sig. N^v Th'aduenture of the Errant damozell.1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 215 Hercules..walking along the shore with a Damosel, whom he loued.1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain Introd. viii. 11 Of errant knight and damozelle.1871 D. G. Rossetti Blessed Damozel (rev. ed.) i, in Poems The blessed damozel leaned out From the gold bar of Heaven.1884 F. M. Crawford Rom. Singer (ed. 2) I. 256 Your boy wants to marry a noble damosel. 2. A young unmarried woman (without any connotation of rank or respect—sometimes even slightingly); a maid, maiden, girl, country lass.Since 17th cent., archaic and literary or playful; not in ordinary spoken use. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > young person > young woman > [noun] daughterOE maidenOE young womanOE mayc1175 burdc1225 maidc1275 wenchc1290 file1303 virginc1330 girla1375 damselc1380 young ladya1393 jilla1425 juvenclec1430 young person1438 domicellea1464 quean1488 trull1525 pulleta1533 Tib1533 kittyc1560 dell1567 gillian1573 nymph1584 winklota1586 frotion1587 yuffrouw1589 pigeon1592 tit1599 nannicock1600 muggle1608 gixy1611 infanta1611 dilla1627 tittiea1628 whimsy1631 ladykin1632 stammel1639 moggie1648 zitellaa1660 baggagea1668 miss1668 baby1684 burdie1718 demoiselle1720 queanie?1800 intombi1809 muchacha1811 jilt1816 titter1819 ragazza1827 gouge1828 craft1829 meisie1838 sheila1839 sixteenc1840 chica1843 femme1846 muffin1854 gel1857 quail1859 kitten1870 bud1880 fräulein1883 sub-debutante1887 sweet-and-twenty1887 flapper1888 jelly1889 queen1894 chick1899 pusher1902 bit of fluff1903 chicklet1905 twist and twirl1905 twist1906 head1913 sub-deb1916 tabby1916 mouse1917 tittie1918 chickie1919 wren1920 bim1922 nifty1923 quiff1923 wimp1923 bride1924 job1927 junior miss1927 hag1932 tab1932 sort1933 palone1934 brush1941 knitting1943 teenybopper1966 weeny-bopper1972 Valley Girl1982 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > unmarried person(s) > unmarried woman > [noun] > young unmarried woman mayc1175 girla1375 damselc1380 miss1668 intombi1809 β. c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 9 To geten þe stynkyng loue of damyselis. 1483 Cath. Angl. 89 Damesselle..nimpha. 1558 J. Knox First Blast against Monstruous Regiment Women f. 55^v Aged fathers and tendre damiselles. 1568 Christis Kirk on Grene in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) II. 262 To dans thir damysellis thame dicht Thir lassis licht of laitis. γ. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Zech. viii. 5 Yonge boyes and damselles, playnge vpon the stretes.1693 W. Congreve Old Batchelour iii. i. 22 Good Words, Damsel, or I shall ——.1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 278. ⁋2 You will not deny your Advice to a distressed Damsel.1832 W. Irving Alhambra II. 139 Awed and abashed in the presence of a simple damsel of fifteen.1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood viii. 47 The two young men, having seen the damsels..enter the courtyard of the Nuns' House.ε. a1529 J. Skelton Why come ye nat to Courte (?1545) 209 With Dalyda to mell, That wanton damozell.1576 Act 18 Eliz. c. 7 §1 Of Women, Maids, Wives and Damosels.1611 Bible (King James) Mark v. 39, 41 The damosell is not dead, but sleepeth..Damosell (I say vnto thee), arise.1642 D. Rogers Naaman 7 A poore damosell and captive.1704 J. Pitts True Acct. Mohammetans v. 27 The Father of the Damosel usually makes up the Match.ζ. 1632 F. Quarles Divine Fancies iii. vii Dam'sel arise? When death had clos'd her eyes, What power had the Dam'sel to arise?1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity ii, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 442 And one mad Dam'sel dares dispute my pow'r. †3. A maid in waiting, a female attendant. Originally a young lady of gentle birth, as maid of honour or waiting-woman to a lady of rank; but gradually extended downward. Now Obsolete except as merged in sense 2. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [noun] > female thuftena1100 handmaidc1300 damselc1330 maid womanc1330 handmaidenc1350 handwomana1382 foot maid?a1475 foot maidenc1480 waiting-woman1565 waitressc1595 waiter1639 attendressa1661 1199 Rot. Chartarum 25/2 Beatriciae et Aeliciae domicellis praedictae reginae sororis nostrae.] c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 618 Felice the feir answerd þo [to her maid]: ‘Damisel’, sche seyd, ‘whi seistow so?’ 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. ix. 12 Dobet is hir damoisele [C. xi. 138 damesele] sire doweles douȝter To serue þis lady lelly. 1490 Caxton's Blanchardyn & Eglantine (1962) ix. 39 A goode auncyent damoysell whiche dyde norisshe her of her brestys..called her nouryce and maystresse. 1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte Exam. Mens Wits x. 130 He sent his damsels [ancillas suas] to call to the Castle. 1649 F. Roberts Clavis Bibliorum (ed. 2) 387 His friends and her Damosels, being the foure speakers. 1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. i. 8 A slender Young waiting Damsel to attend her. 1833 H. Martineau Loom & Lugger ii. v. 100 The terrified kitchen damsels. II. transferred. 4. A hot iron for warming a bed.Apparently a humorous allusion to 1 Kings i. 1–4. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > devices for warming bed bedpan1572 warming-pan1574 froe1594 hot-water bottle1636 damsel1728 nun1728 water bottle1771 hot bottle1836 bottle1857 pig1869 bed-bottle1907 bed-warmer1931 hotty1947 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Damsel,..a kind of Utensil put in Beds, to warm old Mens Feet withal. It consists of a hot Iron inclosed in a hollow Cylinder, which is wrap'd round with linnen Cloth... Some call it a Nun. a1843 R. Southey Common-place Bk. (1851) 4th Ser. 434/1 A hot iron for warming old men's feet is called a Damsel, or Nun. 5. A projection on the spindle of a mill-stone for shaking the shoot. ΚΠ 1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down Damsel, an iron rod with projecting pins, that shakes the shoot of the hopper in a corn mill. 1880 R. Jefferies Round about Great Estate 167 Tibbald, of course, had his joke about that part of the [mill] machinery which is called the ‘damsel’. Compounds C1. attributive, as damsel train, etc. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > retainer or follower > [noun] > collective or retinue > of maids in waiting damsel train1594 1594 T. Lodge & R. Greene Looking Glasse sig. A4^v Ile send for all the Damosell Queenes..To wait as hand-maides on Remelia. 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 721 Her harbinger, a damsel train behind. View more context for this quotation 1726 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey V. xxiii. 46 At his nod the damsel train descends. C2. damsel-errant n. feminine of knight-errant (Scott, after Spenser's ‘errant Damozell’ in 1590 at sense 1ε. ). ΚΠ 1821 W. Scott Kenilworth II. xiii. 329 If any man shall find me playing squire of the body to a damosel-errant. damsel-fish n. a small brightly-coloured fish of the family Pomacentridæ. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Percoidei > [noun] > family Pomacentridae > member of (damsel-fish) Beau-gregory1847 coral-fish1880 goldfish1882 demoiselle1884 Garibaldi1885 damsel-fish1905 white-ear1922 anemonefish1924 maomao1926 1905 D. S. Jordan Guide Study of Fishes II. xxii. 381 The Pomacentridæ, called rock-pilots or damsel-fishes, are exclusively marine. 1931 J. R. Norman Hist. Fishes xii. 246 Interesting examples of commensalism occur among the Pomacentrids or Damsel-fishes (Pomacentridae) of tropical coral reefs. 1968 J. E. Randall Caribbean Reef Fishes 189 Many of the damselfishes are highly territorial and pugnacious. damsel-fly n. the slender dragon-fly Agrion Virgo, and kindred species, called in French demoiselle. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Odonata > suborder Zygoptera > member of agrion1791 damsel-fly1817 zygopterid1900 1817 T. Moore Lalla Rookh 154 The beautiful blue damsel-flies. 1840 R. Browning Sordello i. 284 Flittered in the cool some azure damsel-fly. Derivatives ˈdamselhood n. the condition or age of a damsel, young-womanhood. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > young person > young woman > [noun] > state or quality of being sweet seventeen1791 young ladyhood1843 young-womanhood1852 young ladyship1856 young ladyishness1867 damselhood1880 flapperhood1905 flapperdom1907 flapperism1909 1880 Daily News 1 July The great majority..had not reached the glory of damselhood; they were simply children. ˈdamselish adj. of or proper to a damsel (nonce-words). ΚΠ 1867 Contemp. Rev. 6 363 ‘One of the queene's damsélles’ is set forth as riding about (certainly in a very damselish way) at random..to find the desired champion. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1290
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