Crossword-Solution: DAMSEL 6 letters, 85 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word Word Type Definition
Damsel n. A young person, either male or female, of noble or gentle
extraction; as, Damsel Pepin; Damsel Richard, Prince of Wales.
Damsel n. A young unmarried woman; a girl; a maiden.
Damsel n. An attachment to a millstone spindle for shaking the
hopper.

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DAMSEL anagram LAMEDS, MEDALS

We have 85 clues for the answer “DAMSEL”

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Melodrama stock character 1 answer
One often in distress 1 answer
One oft in distress 1 answer
One in distress, maybe 1 answer
One "in distress" 1 answer
Old movie heroine "in distress" 1 answer
Oft-distressed person 1 answer
Oft-distressed one 1 answer
Noble woman of old 1 answer
Movie maiden "in distress" 1 answer
Miss in distress? 1 answer
One stereotypically in distress *EYE ROLL* 1 answer
Melodrama persona 1 answer
Melodrama maiden 1 answer
Melodrama heroine 1 answer
Maiden, in old literature 1 answer
Maiden of yore 1 answer
Maiden in distress? 1 answer
Maid of old. 1 answer
Knight's rescuee 1 answer
Interest of a knight in shining armor 1 answer
Silent movie heroine "in distress" 1 answer
in distress Woman Fr. holy 1 answer
___ in distress (fairy-tale trope) 1 answer
___ bug (long-limbed predatory insect) 1 answer
Young maiden who is sometimes in distress 1 answer
Woman in distress? 1 answer
Woman hoping for a knight in shining armor 1 answer
Victim of melodrama 1 answer
Sufferer of distress, in tales 1 answer
Silents heroine "in distress" 1 answer
Silent-movie heroine "in distress" 1 answer
Helpless fairytale character 1 answer
She's sometimes in distress 1 answer
She's always in distress 1 answer
She may be in distress 1 answer
Rescuee, in fairy tales 1 answer
Rapunzel, for one 1 answer
Rapunzel, e.g. 1 answer
Producer of a distress call? 1 answer
Prefix for "fish" or "fly" 1 answer
Person in distress 1 answer
Girl, to a poet 1 answer
"I'm a ___, I'm in distress, I can handle this. Have a nice day." ("Hercules" line) 1 answer
Archaic young maiden 1 answer
Chivalry beneficiary 1 answer
Classic sufferer of distress 1 answer
Distressed character? 1 answer
Distressed gal? 1 answer
Distressed lass? 1 answer
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One who, or that which, eats.
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TAREE
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greedy person
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Sentences with DAMSEL (5)

Venus consented to her request and transformed her into a beautiful damsel, so that the youth saw her and loved her, and took her home as his bride.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
There is in that train one who will make me a better mate.” “What! wouldst thou stoop to the waiting damsel?” said De Bracy.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993
Yes, I said, and I do not believe that there were any such diseases in the days of Asclepius; and this I infer from the circumstance that the hero Eurypylus, after he has been wounded in Homer, drinks a posset of Pramnian wine well besprinkled with barley-meal and grated cheese, which are certainly inflammatory, and yet the sons of Asclepius who were at the Trojan war do not blame the damsel who gives him the drink, or rebuke Patroclus, who is treating his case.
Plato's Republic Plato 2008
Since the age of fifteen, which was eleven years before, Robert each summer at Grand Isle had constituted himself the devoted attendant of some fair dame or damsel.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories Kate Chopin 1994
The table was set with meat and drink and vessel of pewter and earth, all fair and good; and thereby stood the chapman's wife, a very goodly woman of two-score years, who had held Ralph at the font when she was a slim damsel new wedded; for she was come of no mean kindred of the Kingdom of Upmeads: her name was Dame Katherine.
The Well at the World's End William Morris 2008

Quotes with DAMSEL (3)

I look up to say something but he puts his finger to my lips and whispers, “Don’t talk. You’ll just spoil my fantasy of rescuing an innocent damsel in distress as soon as you open your mouth.
Susan Ee World After
I who know many present things by my art," replied the Hermit with a smile, "have yet little knowledge of things future. Therefore I do not know whether any man or woman or beast in the whole world will be alive when the sun sets tonight. But be of good hope. The damsel is likely to live as long as any her age.
C. S. Lewis The Horse and His Boy
The worm doth woo the mortal, death claims a living bride, Night unto day is married, morn unto eventide, Earth a merry damsel, and heaven a knight so true, And Earth is quite coquettish, and beseemeth in vain to sue.
Emily Dickinson The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 83 times in crossword archives (1965–2025).