The word 'damsel' is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to refer to a young woman or girl, usually in a traditional, romantic way. For example, "The damsel in distress was rescued by the prince".
Unfortunately, if he has a flaw, it's a weakness for a damsel in distress, and the more he comes round to Denton's point of view, the more I fear that she's pulling the wool over his eyes.
Often clueless, Stone is the very model of the damsel in distress.
What Sarkeesian lacks in charisma she makes up for in tenacity, as she piles on the charges against such bleak video game staples as the perpetually terrorised damsel in distress.
Accompanying the actors on a weekend visit to Berlin, Peter crosses the wall into the eastern sector and the course of his life is changed for ever.Peter's number-one boyhood hero is Sir Bevidere, last knight of the Round Table whom the dying King Arthur entrusted with his sword, and he longs to meet a dragon-threatened damsel to whom he might display the courage he hopes he harbours within.
A rare pendant by Fernand Thesmar, a renowned enameller, shows a damsel fly perched on a bright green lily pad.
Broomhilda isn't much more than an off-the-peg damsel in distress, but by appearing so often in Django's memory and imagination, she gives the film a certain tenderness.
Polidori is spotted on a balcony at Byron's London pad by a bookish damsel called Eliza, who imagines the handsome loser is the handsome lord.
The damsel refused to lie with them.
In a reversal of the "damsel in distress" cliché, she devoted much of her time to rescuing her boyfriend, Larry Lance, from the clutches of villains.
