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. |