maidservant
a female servant.
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How to use maidservant in a sentence
“The truth is always either terrible or boring,” she tells her maidservant Shae (Sibel Kekilli) earlier this season.
‘Mad Men,’ ‘Game of Thrones,’ ‘The Americans’: Reading Prestige TV Dramas as YA Fiction | Alyssa Rosenberg | April 10, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIf a man has bought a manservant or a maidservant and has a complaint, his seller shall answer the complaint.
The Oldest Code of Laws in the World | Hammurabi, King of BabylonA pretty maidservant, heated and flushed with orders and compliments, crossed his path with a tray full of glasses.
Night and Morning, Complete | Edward Bulwer-LyttonOn the bench beside the gate sat the old maidservant with his little sister, a child six years old.
The Burgomaster's Wife, Complete | Georg EbersFrom some impure maidservant who has stolen into the household and the nursery?
The Power of Womanhood, or Mothers and Sons | Ellice Hopkins
She was, she declared, treated like a maidservant and made the hireling of the Despensers.
The History of England | T.F. Tout
British Dictionary definitions for maidservant
/ (ˈmeɪdˌsɜːvənt) /
a female servant
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