1) Dated women 2) Distressed heroines 3) Distressed ladies 4) Distressed ones 5) Fairy-tale stock characters 6) Lasses 7) Maidens 8) Melodrama victims 9) Misses 10) Noble women originally 11) Ones in distress in old films 12) Ones often in distress 13) People oft in distress 14) They may be in distress 1) Lasses 2) Maids