Usage of "demoiselle"

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1907 Experimental aircraft series by Alberto Santos-Dumont.

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Portuguese

Catalan

A young unmarried woman.

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Small brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes of coral reefs.

Usage of demoiselle in English

But she insisted on his going first to the demoiselle Van Eyck. 
 The Cloister and the Hearth 

There is some demoiselle at home on whom your heart is set. 
 A Little Girl in Old Quebec 

That missing demoiselle, no one knows as you do where she is. 
 The Golden Dog 

But she comprehends well the arithmetic, that demoiselle Meelair; it was enormous! 
 The Ruling Passion: Tales of Nature and Human Nature 

Now in this fountain a demoiselle disported herself for her delight. 
 French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France 

Then she went into the road and under the trees, haughty, a demoiselle. 
 Twilight in Italy 

Solivet was of my opinion that the old demoiselle had instigated this attack. 
 Stray Pearls: Memoirs of Margaret De Ribaumont, Viscountess of B... 

Thus she chattered on with the naive freedom of any other young demoiselle. 
 The Black Wolf's Breed / A Story of France in the Old World and ... 

The demoiselle Meelair she was not solid in the canoe. 
 The Ruling Passion: Tales of Nature and Human Nature 

The other is the demoiselle Julie, maid to demoiselle Annette. 
 Annette, the Metis Spy: A Heroine of the N.W. Rebellion 

I trow 'tis my dear friend the demoiselle Van Eyck. 
 The Cloister and the Hearth 

And I dare swear this messenger's account will prove diverting, lisped the sky-coloured demoiselle. 
 The Helmet of Navarre 

Can ye not give us the clue, my good demoiselle? 
 The Cloister and the Hearth 

I am no Paris demoiselle! said Cigarette, with a dash of her old acrimony. 
 Under Two Flags 

She has become suddenly une belle demoiselle, like a rose that blooms in a night. 
 Richard Carvel — Volume 01 

He had already told her all that the demoiselle Van Eyck had said to him. 
 The Cloister and the Hearth 

demoiselle

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Meanings of demoiselle in English