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noun | noun | to phrases
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| maiden (a (young) unmarried woman); hussy; miss; young woman; girl; a young lady; virgin | |||
| demoiselle (MichaelBurov) | |||
| damsel; popsy ("Seeing the popsy bathed in tears, he quivered from stem to stern." (P.G. Wodehouse) ART Vancouver) | |||
| spinster | |||
| spinstress | |||
| unmarried woman | |||
| pucelle; agamist | |||
| damoisel; damoiselle | |||
| maid | |||
| damosel | |||
| piece of goods (Taras) | |||
| wench | |||
| celibate | |||
| young thing (if you live in Russia, you have been certainly called on the phone by a chipper young thing excitedly telling you: У нас идёт акция – купите три окна, и четвёртое – бесплатно! –We're running a special promotion: buy three windows and get the fourth one free! (Michele Berdy)) | |||
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| a piece of goods; damsel (a young girl • a damsel in distress); broad (vogeler) | |||
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| Agriculture | 2 |
| American usage, not spelling | 1 |
| Archaic | 2 |
| Botany | 9 |
| Cinematography | 1 |
| Education | 4 |
| Fairy tales | 1 |
| Figurative | 3 |
| Folklore | 3 |
| General | 72 |
| Historical | 3 |
| Informal | 13 |
| Literature | 6 |
| Makarov | 19 |
| Obsolete / dated | 1 |
| Pompous | 6 |
| Proverb | 2 |
| Scotland | 1 |
| Slang | 5 |
| Vulgar | 2 |