servingmaid
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servingmaid (plural servingmaids) (historical)
- A female servant.
- 1901, Alberta Bancroft, Royal Rogues, page 61:
- It is not for the royal son of King Goldemar to make sport of peasant servingmaids;
- 1936, Upton Sinclair, Co-op: A Novel of Living Together, page 374:
- It was what Lenin, a realistic thinker, had meant when he said that every servingmaid should be capable of running the state.
- 1950, The I Ching; Or, Book of Changes, volume 2, page 319:
- Therefore because of her nobility she pays no attention to outer appearance, and the servingmaid, in the lowest place, is more gorgeous than she.
- 1981, Suzette Haden Elgin, The Ozark Trilogy; republished United States: University of Arkansas Press, 2000 March, →ISBN, page 164:
- The Castle Housekeeper stood there casually watching three servingmaids polish the same banister over and over again, and she looked up as I stepped under the doorbeam and pretended to be surprised.
- 2014, William T. Vollmann, Last Stories and Other Stories, Penguin Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 82:
- […] meanwhile one of his agents rented a stable, filled it with Arabian horses and offloaded from the Sava, and sold them all, very dear, to dukes, mercenaries and ruiners of servingmaids.
- 2015 May 22, Emma Donoghue, Emma Donoghue: Selected Plays, Oberon Books, →ISBN:
- If you’re born a servingmaid, daughter to a servingmaid, who was daughter to a servingmaid in her turn, you know not to expect too much of life.