Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A young attendant; a page; a youth of good quality not yet knighted.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A young squire, or knight's attendant; a page.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A young
squire or theattendant to aknight ; apage
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Examples
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I have translated _squire_, because the donzel was a youth of gentle birth awaiting knighthood.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866
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I have translated _squire_, because the donzel was a youth of gentle birth awaiting knighthood.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series John Addington Symonds 1866
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DAMSEL OR DAMOISEAU (in Italian, _donzel_; in Latin, _domisellus_); one of the gallant youths domiciled in the _maison du roi.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853
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But I, donzel, wear the spurs of knighthood, and to succour the distressed is a duty my oath will not let me swerve from.
The Last of the Barons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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But I, donzel, wear the spurs of knighthood, and to succour the distressed is a duty my oath will not let me swerve from.
The Last of the Barons — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
qms commented on the word donzel
A lady in waiting mistook
A page for the unabridged book.
When damsel and donzel
Entangled some tonsil
The lady her waiting forsook.
December 13, 2016