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Definition of Damosels
1. damosel [n] - See also: damosel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Damosels
Literary usage of Damosels
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of His Noble by Thomas Malory, William Caxton (1900)
"And then was Sir Gawaine ware how there hung a white shield on that tree, and
ever as the damosels came by it they spit upon it, and some threw mire upon ..."
2. La Mort D'Arthure: The History of King Arthur and of the Knights of the by Thomas Malory (1866)
"And then was sir Gawaine ware how there hung a white shield on that tree, and
ever as the damosels came by it, they spet upon it, and some threw mire upon ..."
3. Harper's Cyclopaedia of British and American Poetry edited by Epes Sargent (1882)
"Nothing we nsk of the things that please ; Weary are we, and old, and gray ; "
damosels—Dames, be piteous!" (But the dames rode fast by the roadway "Hear ns ..."
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