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单词 waiting-woman
释义 ˈwaiting-ˌwoman Now arch.
[waiting ppl. a.]
A female servant, or personal attendant.
1565in Burgon Gresham (1839) II. 391 Suffring only one waiting wooman to attende upon her.1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. v. ii. 91 By all Dianas waiting women yond: And by her selfe, I will not tell you whose.1749Fielding Tom Jones x. v, Being now left alone with her maid, she told her trusty waiting-woman, That she never was more easy than at present.1831Scott Chron. Canongate Introd., Neither the Highland cicerone MacLeish, nor the demure waiting⁓woman, were drawn from imagination.
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