Maidservant
['meɪdsɜːv(ə)nt]
Definition
(n.) A female servant.
Editor: Paula
Examples
- A widow lady kept the house; she had a daughter, and a maidservant, and a journeyman who attended the warehouse, but lodged abroad. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The maidservant of Mrs. Rushworth, senior, threatened alarmingly. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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