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From
maid
+
-like
.
Adjective
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maidlike
(
comparative
more
maidlike
,
superlative
most
maidlike
)
(
archaic
,
poetic
)
maidenly
Resembling or characteristic of a
maid
(female domestic servant).
1978
, Marc Edmund Jones,
Man, magic, and fantasy: the domestication of imagination
:
Somehow his
maidlike
service to her collapsed what she was building up, psychologically.
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