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slavey
1[ sley-vee ]
noun
- a female servant, especially a maid of all work in a boardinghouse.
Slavey
2[ sley-vee ]
noun
- a member of a group of Athabascan-speaking First Nations living in the upper Mackenzie River valley region of the Northwest Territories and in parts of British Columbia, Alberta, and the Yukon Territory.
Slavey
1/ ˈsleɪvɪ /
noun
- a member of a Dene Native Canadian people of northern Canada
slavey
2/ ˈsleɪvɪ /
noun
- informal.a female general servant
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Example Sentences
A bucolic slavey—a person whose cheerful simpleness is like to that of the little creatures of the field—attends you.
She is a young lady typical of the Cockney slavey type, dressed according to the ideas of her class as regards the perfect lady.
I hated the dismal little 'slavey' who, twice a week, on an average, would bring him up to me.
"My hye," exclaimed the slavey, who adored Herr Kreutzer and intensely worshiped Anna.
"No fault o' 'is, then," said the slavey quickly, voicing her earnest partisanship without a moment's wait.
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