Abigail
['æbɪgeɪl] or ['æbɪ,gel]
Definition
(n.) A lady's waiting-maid.
Editor: Wallace
Definition
n. a lady's-maid.
Editor: Meredith
Examples
- She never did so before, at last said Bessie, turning to the Abigail. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- And how is Abigail Peters? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- But, Abbey was only short for Abigail, by which name Miss Potterson had been christened at Limehouse Church, some sixty and odd years before. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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