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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) |
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Agriculture | 2 |
American usage, not spelling | 1 |
Archaic | 2 |
Botany | 6 |
Cinematography | 1 |
Education | 4 |
Fairy tales | 1 |
Figurative | 3 |
Folklore | 3 |
General | 73 |
Historical | 3 |
Informal | 13 |
Literature | 6 |
Makarov | 19 |
Obsolete / dated | 1 |
Pompous | 6 |
Proverb | 2 |
Scotland | 1 |
Slang | 5 |
Vulgar | 2 |