demoiselle

la demoiselle (FR N-F ARCH) damsel, young girl nobly born or married to a noble; (modern) celibate woman, young girl, maid, virgin; girl attached to a royal retinue. First appears in French in the 12th / 13th centuries spelled damoiselle, (10th c.) donnizelle, from Latin dominicella, domina (lady). (Aragon, Gautier)