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damsel(dictionary)
damsel(dictionary)

soliloquy (oh) and damsel (medicine)


soliloquy (oh)



[U and C]
[Date: 1300-1400; Language: Late Latin; Origin: soliloquium, from Latin solus ( SOLE1) + loqui 'to speak']
a speech in a play in which a character, usually alone on the stage, talks to himself or herself so that the audience knows their thoughts
-see also monologue monologue
-- soliloquize /-kwaIz/ v [I]

damsel (medicine)


damsel


1. A young person, either male or female, of noble or gentle extraction; as, Damsel Pepin; Damsel Richard, Prince of Wales.

2. A young unmarried woman; a gerl; a maiden. "With her train of damsels she was gone, In shady walks the scorching heat to shum." (Dryden) "Sometimes a troop of damsels glad, . . . Goes by to towered Cameleot." (Tennyson)

3. An attachment to a millstone spindle for shaking the hoppe.

Origin: OE. Damosel, damesel, damisel, damsel, fr. OF. Damoisele, damisele, gentlewoman, F. Demoiselle young lady; cf. OF. Damoisel young nobleman, F. Damoiseau; fr. LL. Domicella, dominicella, fem, domicellus, dominicellus, masc, dim. Fr. L. Domina, dominus. See Dame, and cf. Demoiselle, Doncella.

Source: Websters Dictionary