What is "damozel"

Usage examples of "damozel".

Sir, of your valliance you should have held to your good vow,--quoth the damozel, for now you see me sore perplexed and that you did not your devoir is my affliction.

And he said that sunsets made him sick and so did the Blessed Damozel and he had a pain in his inside.

Among them were several young women of the Blessed Damozel school, who wore flowing garments of sap-green or orche, or puffed raiment of Venetian red, and among whom the cartwheel hat, the Elizabethan sleeve, and the Toby frill were conspicuous.

Sweet damozel, sing me that song again: Full dolorous it is and wet with tears, Yet glad withal, as one should weep with joy Of life that is too sweet with brimming bliss.

Not exactly the Blessed Damozel looking forth over the gold bars of heaven, but perhaps the medieval damsel watching a furious lance being broken for her sake.

That, at least, was, I was pretty sure, how an idealistic beazel like Madeline Bassett, already rendered hot under the collar by his subversive views on sunsets and Blessed Damozels, would regard it.