Definition of "pucelle"

pucelle

/pʊˈsɛl/

noun
plural pucelles
1. (archaic) A girl, a maiden; a virgin (often with reference to Joan of Arc).
  Quotations
  Lady or pucelle, that wears mask or fan.
  1608 (at the earliest), Ben Jonson, letter to John Fletcher
  Seven weeks before, Joan of Arc had ridden into Orleans. She was at the height of her strange career.…‘Maid or Witch, Pucelle or Puzzell – she is very hard to understand.’
  1976, Robert Nye, Falstaff
2. (obsolete) A prostitute, a slut.