demoiselles in English

noun

1

a small, graceful Old World crane with a black head and breast and white ear tufts, breeding in southeastern Europe and central Asia.

Keeping us company were a demoiselle crane on the shore and a flock of waders in the water.

2

a damselfly, especially of the genus Agrion.

The Banded Demoiselle belongs to a group of insects called Odonata (meaning toothed jaws) that includes Dragonflies and Damselflies.

3

a damselfish.

The tropical fish tank came fully equipped: pumps, filters, hoses, light fixtures, coral arrangements, and a small cadre of lively black-and-white-striped damselfish, also called demoiselles .

4

a young woman.

Twelve years were to pass before Françaix wrote his next ballet, ‘Les demoiselles de la nuit) (The Ladies of the Night).

noun

• damselfish
• damosel, damsel, damoiselle

Use "demoiselles" in a sentence

1. Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

2. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and

3. Textbooks often cite Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) as the first Cubist painting

4. It is generally agreed to have begun around 1907 with Picasso’s celebrated painting Demoiselles D’Avignon which included elements of Cubist style

5. Les demoiselles de Bienfilatre; Véra; Vox populi; Deux Augures; L'ffichage céleste; Antonio; La m Les demoiselles de Bienfilatre; Véra; Vox populi; Deux Augures; L'affichage céleste; Antonie; La machine à gloire; Duke of Portland; Virginie et Paul; Le convive des dernières fêtes; A s'y méprendre; Impatience de la foule; Le secret de l'ancienne musique; Sentimentalisme; Le plus beau

6. To create the images in The Bathers, Williams drew on gestures and poses found in iconic paintings of nude women, including tableaux of Bathers by Paul Cézanne and Auguste Renoir, renderings of Venus by Giorgione and Titian, Dominique Ingres’s Odalisque and Slave, and Pablo Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon