as in girls
a young unmarried woman
knights are celebrated in fairy tales for rescuing damsels in distress
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Recent Examples of damsels
Dark Towers, crooked wizard towers, towers with damsels in distress.
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Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for damsels
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The Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a non-profit research organization, has tracked nihilistic attacks across the globe, including stabbings in Sweden by teenagers associated with a group called No Lives Matter, and the killing of three girls in northern England.—
Curt Devine,
CNN Money,
10 Feb. 2026
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The Central Yellowjackets won a back-and-forth game over the Manual Crimsons in KHSAA Seventh Region girls basketball.—
Ray Padilla,
Louisville Courier Journal,
10 Feb. 2026
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This is a 1,000 year old tradition where two maidens are chosen to be slaughtered as repentance to one of their goddesses.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
7 Aug. 2025
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Prized 2-year-olds trained by Bob Baffert ran an impressive 1-2 in their debuts in Sunday’s opening race, a six-furlong test for maidens.—
Bill Center,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 Aug. 2025
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But Season Four takes viewers to lower-class settings like the bars where scullery maids and footmen relax, the markets where house staff shop, even the secret drawing rooms where servants eat their breakfast and discuss town gossip.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
2 Feb. 2026
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In Jackson, Mississippi during the early 1960s, a young white woman teams up with two Black maids to document the realities of domestic work in segregated households.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
1 Feb. 2026
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“Damsels.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/damsels. Accessed 10 Feb. 2026.
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