handmaid

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hand⋅maid

[hand-meyd]

–noun

1.	something that is necessarily subservient or subordinate to another: Ceremony is but the handmaid of worship.

2.	a female servant or attendant.

Also, handmaiden.

Origin:
1350–1400; ME; see hand, maid

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hand·maid (hānd'mād')

A woman attendant or servant.
often handmaiden Something that accompanies or is attendant on another: "the traditional notion that government was the handmaiden of business" (Doris Kearns Goodwin).

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

handmaid

1382, from hand (in the sense in close at hand) + maid. Cf. O.E. handþrgn "personal attendant."

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Bible Dictionary

Handmaid

servant (Gen. 16:1; Ruth 3:9; Luke 1:48). It is probable that Hagar was Sarah's personal attendant while she was in the house of Pharaoh, and was among those maid-servants whom Abram had brought from Egypt.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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