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colleen
noun as in damsel
Weak matches
Example Sentences
One Irishman observed bitterly: “The colleens who found jobs in the kitchens of the wealthy were called ‘pot-wallopers,’ ‘biddies,’ and kitchen canaries.
“You could tell us a story without any colleens or battles in it.”
Wilmington described O’Hara as “Hollywood’s ultimate fiery colleen, she has a classic chiseled Irish beauty and a thinly strapped temper that erupted smashingly into scathing tantrums or round-house rights.”
And the neighbours all pity the colleen so pretty,
The Hitch The inhabitants of a neighboring barren, windswept Irish island want parts in it, including the play’s misshapen title character and a sociopathic colleen named Slippy Helen.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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