Housemaid
['haʊsmeɪd] or ['haʊsmed]
Definition
(n.) A female servant employed to do housework, esp. to take care of the rooms.
Typed by Gordon
Examples
- I congrat---- To Milverton's housemaid. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- She heard no noise, though the housemaid came in to arrange the room. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Thus, as Mr. Chesterton suggests, no determinist is prevented from saying if you please to the housemaid. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- You may run on, Fanny, he said to the housemaid; we shall overtake you. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Good-bye,' rejoined the pretty housemaid, turning her head away. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The pretty housemaid put out a hand which, although it was a housemaid's, was a very small one, and rose to go. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Your ladyship's deceased housemaid was at the top of her profession when she was a thief. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The housemaid, Saunders. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- She has left her direction, as she wanted to be my housemaid. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Add to this that, plain as she was, there was just a dash of something that wasn't like a housemaid, and that WAS like a lady, about her. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The first housemaid followed Penelope. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I was not let in again to see her, no more was the housemaid, for the reason that she was not to be disturbed by strangers. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- She is an excellent housemaid, and works very well at her needle. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Am I to understand, Sir Percival, that your wife's room is a prison, and that your housemaid is the gaoler who keeps it? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- There she was, busy at work in the breakfast-parlour, of which the housemaid was completing the arrangement and dusting. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She was quite shocked when I asked her whether wine was allowed at the second table, and she has turned away two housemaids for wearing white gowns. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- She chased Jessie and Rose from the upper realm of the house; she forbade the housemaids to set their foot in it. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He had Mrs. Yorke to appease; not quite so easy a task as the pacification of her housemaids. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Editor: Marilyn