donzel
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of donzel
1585–95; < Italian donzello < Old Provençal donzel < Vulgar Latin *dom ( i ) nicellus, equivalent to Latin domin ( us ) lord + -cellus diminutive suffix; damsel
Example Sentences
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Donzel Cleare of the New York Police Department stood in front of a classroom at Liberation Diploma Plus High School in Coney Island and asked a simple question: “How many of you guys feel that I work for you?”
From New York Times
The 21-year-old men are suspected of gunning down 18-year-old Kenyatta Butler and 19-year-old Donzel Gaines as they sat in their car in a parking lot in San Francisco’s Crocker Amazon neighborhood the morning of March 9.
From Washington Times
Donzel, don′zel, n. a page or squire:—fem.
From Project Gutenberg
He moves before our eyes like the angelic -469-knight in Mantegna's Madonna of the Victory, or like Giorgione's picture of the fair-haired and mail-clad donzel, born to conquer by the might of beauty.
From Project Gutenberg
Rosiclear and Donzel del Phebo, the heroine and hero of the Mirror of Knighthood, a mediæval romance.
From Project Gutenberg
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