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ˈcook-maid A maid or female servant employed in cooking, or as assistant to a cook.
1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iv. ii. 179. 1664 Pepys Diary (1879) III. 75 Neither I nor anyone in my house but Jane the cook-mayde could do it. 1768H. Walpole Hist. Doubts 12 note, Gloucester..discovered the Lady Anne in the dress of a cookmaid in London. 1861M. Arnold Pop. Educ. France 167 Those who think that the development of society can be arrested because a farmer's wife finds it hard to get a cookmaid. |