Barmaid
['bɑːmeɪd] or ['bɑrmed]
Definition
(n.) A girl or woman who attends the customers of a bar, as in a tavern or beershop.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
For a man to dream of a barmaid, denotes that his desires run to low pleasures, and he will scorn purity. For a young woman to dream that she is a barmaid, foretells that she will be attracted to fast men, and that she will prefer irregular pleasures to propriety.
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Examples
- I should think, from her childhood, she must have lived in public stations; and in her youth might very likely have been a barmaid. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It is a big storm, the barmaid said. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- It was with his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The barmaid called to her master, and warned him that strangers were intruding themselves into the house. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Call Mr. Pickwick's servant, Tom,' said the barmaid of the George and Vulture. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The unaccustomed visitor from outside, naturally assumed everybody here to be prisoners--landlord, waiter, barmaid, potboy, and all. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Show him up,' said the barmaid to a waiter, without deigning another look at the exquisite, in reply to his inquiry. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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