waiting maid
English
editNoun
editwaiting maid (plural waiting maids)
- (historical) A lady's female servant.
- Synonym: maid-in-waiting
- 1788, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary: A Fiction[1]:
- As she was sometimes obliged to be alone, or only with her French waiting-maid, she sent to the metropolis for all the new publications […] .