chambermaidn.

Brit.

/ˈtʃeɪmbəmeɪd/, U.S.

/ˈtʃeɪmbərˌmeɪd/

Forms: see chamber n. and maid n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: chamber n., maid n.¹

Etymology: < chamber n. + maid n.¹ Compare Middle French, French femme de chambre (second half of the 14th cent.), (now rare) fille de chambre (1550 or earlier), Dutch kamerjuffer (Middle Dutch camerjoncvrouwe , camerjoffrouwe ), kamermaagd (Middle Dutch camermaget , kamermaight , etc.), Middle Low German kāmerjuncvrouwe , kāmermāget , German Kammerjungfer (15th cent. as kamerjonffer ), Kammerjungfrau (1474), Kammermagd (beginning of the 15th cent. as kammermagt ), all in sense ‘lady's maid’. Compare earlier chamberer n. and its French etymon.

1. A lady's maid. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [noun] > lady's maid

chamberlaina1400

waiting-maid1561

chambermaid1569

lady's maid1577

tire-woman1615

abigail1616

fille de chambre1673

suivante1674

comb-brush1702

tiring-woman1732

femme de chambre1741

lady's woman1748

personal maid1748

comb-brusher1751

ayah1782

wardrobe maid1797

soubrette1824

camerist1838

tire-maid1871

1569 E. Fenton tr. P. Boaistuau Certaine Secrete Wonders Nature xxxvii. f. 129 Diuers souldioures had violated their hostesse chamber maide [Fr. la chambriere de leur hostesse].

1590 R. Greene Neuer too Late i. 50 He vnderstood by her chamber maide that she was at home.

1658 A. Cokayne Small Poems 35 Ask but a Chamber-maid..what her young Lady doth.

1691 Satyr against French 15 She must be thought ill-manner'd or ill-bred Whose Woman, Confident, or Chambermaid Did not in France suck in her first-breath'd Air.

1719–20 J. Swift Let. to Young Gentleman (1721) 6 He used to consult one of his Lady's Chambermaids.

1770 G. Colman Portrait i. 2 When a smart gallant Makes amorous advances, A modern lady trusts her chambermaid.

1833 Lady Morgan Manor Sackville i, in Dramatic Scenes I. 20 The out-of-livery servants, sir, and a young woman as called herself my Lady's own chambermaid.

1896 Times 25 Feb. 14/4 An English lady was robbed of jewels worth 30,000f. She accused her chambermaid.

1934 PMLA 49 797 Maria, a chambermaid, marries a knight who is uncle, or at least cousin, to her noble mistress.

1987 Times (Nexis) 11 Nov. The company set up a court of love with the lady's chambermaid as queen.

a. A woman employed to clean the bedrooms in a house or hotel.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > domestic servant > [noun] > servant having care of bedchambers > woman or girl

chamberer1340

chambermaid1578

chambress1656

femme de chambre1800

1578 H. Wotton tr. J. Yver Courtlie Controuersie v. 272 Bearded men weare biggins, driueling and dandeling in their mothers lappes, betwene sisters and the chambermaids [Fr. entre leur seur & la chambriere].

1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxxiv. 634 He whom the Chambermayd had made amazed.

c1610 Lady Compton in Grose's Antiquarian Repertory (1808) III. 438 Not pestering my Things with my Womens, nor theirs with Chambermaids, nor theirs with Washmaids.

a1642 J. Suckling Goblins iii. 31 in Fragmenta Aurea (1646) Camber maides, and country wenches About thirty.

1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical x. 128 My Grandmother was never without a Dozen Chamber-Maids and Nurses in Family.

a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iv. xxix. 153 A ballad tune sung by the coarse-piped chamber maid.

1803 Censor 1 Mar. 31 Six-pence to the chamber-maid, six-pence to the ostler, and six-pence to the jack-boot.

1849 J. W. Carlyle Lett. II. 70 The chamber-maid came to say a gentleman was asking for me.

1922 D. H. Lawrence Aaron's Rod (N.Y. ed.) xiv. 200 He did not notice the dinner-gong, and only the arrival of the chamber-maid..sent him down to the restaurant.

1951 G. Heyer Quiet Gentleman xxii. 329 The housekeeper..bustled in, armed with smelling-salts and sal volatile, and followed by a couple of chambermaids.

1998 Independent 6 May ii. 5/4 I've been unfortunate enough to work as a chambermaid myself, in a scuzzy hotel in Paris.

†b. Theatre. The type of a light comedy role for a woman, as a lady's maid, waitress, etc. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > part or character > [noun] > types of part or character

underpart1679

persona muta1714

travesty1732

soubrette1753

old man1762

small part?1774

breeches-part1779

character part1811

fat1812

chambermaida1828

fool?1835

raisonneur1845

ingénue1848

villain of the piece1854

stock character1864

feeder1866

satirette1870

character role1871

travesty1887

thinking part1890

walk-on1902

cardboard cutout1906

bit1926

good guy1928

feed1929

bad guy1932

goody1934

walkthrough1935

narrator1941

cameo1950

black hat1959

a1828 J. Bernard Retrospections of Stage (1830) I. x. 281 Mrs Gardner of the Haymarket, a chambermaid actress of great merit.

1850 C. Lyell 2nd Visit U.S. (ed. 2) II. 216 She liked much to act chambermaid, as then she was not expected to learn her part so accurately.

1885 W. C. Day Behind Footlights 120 We have the..singing chambermaid, to whose fascination, loquacity and chronic curiosity..the audience is indebted for no inconsiderable portion of its enjoyment.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

chambermaidv.

Brit.

/ˈtʃeɪmbəmeɪd/, U.S.

/ˈtʃeɪmbərˌmeɪd/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: chambermaid n.

Etymology: < chambermaid n. Compare later maid v.

intransitive. To perform the work of a chambermaid (chambermaid n. 2a); to clean and tidy bedrooms. Also occasionally transitive: to clean and tidy (a bedroom).

ΚΠ

1875 T. Yelverton Teresina in Amer. II. xxiv. 270 Biddy, with her ten years chamber-maiding, her husband bar-keeping, soon realizes an independence.

1920 O. R. Cohen Come Seven 287 She ransacked the storehouse of memory for such scraps of movie vernacular and bits of professional patter as she had heard drip from the incarnadined lips of the stars for whom she had chambermaided.

1998 Observer (Nexis) 15 Mar. 50 You have to leave your room at an appointed hour or it won't get chambermaided.

2004 J. Libaire Here Kitty Kitty 14 On the Cape, I chambermaided at a motor lodge, lifting a pair of cuff links here,a pint of Southern Comfort there.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

> as lemmas

a. A female servant or attendant; a maidservant; often with defining word prefixed as bar-maid, chamber-maid, farm-maid, house-maid, nurse-maid, servant-maid, etc.; lady's maid (see lady's maid n.). Cf. maiden n. 3.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > service > servant > [noun] > woman or girl

maidenOE

schelchenec1000

womanOE

maidc1300

ancillec1366

wench1380

child-womana1382

maidservanta1382

serving-womana1398

servantessa1425

servant maid?a1450

woman servant1450

servitrice1477

administress1483

ministressa1500

serving maid?1529

maiden-servant1533

servitrix1566

miskin-fro1585

servant girl1658

girl1668

necessary womanc1689

scout1708

servitress1827

ancilla1871

c1300 St. Mary Magdalen (Laud) 492 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 476 Heo haueȝ i-beon min hou[s]wif, mi mayde, and mi norice.

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) i. 2573 Sche..goth to chambre and hath compleigned Unto a Maide which sche triste.

1461 in F. B. Bickley Little Red Bk. Bristol (1900) II. 127 No person..sett..his seid wyfe, daughter, or maide to no suche occupacion of weuyng.

a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 59/1 Y^t it was not princely to mary hys owne subiect,..onely as it were a rich man that would mary his mayde.

1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (rev. ed.) f. 6 Thy nychtbouris wyfe..Thow couet not, to the..his oxe, his maide nor page.

a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1658 (1955) III. 208 He [sc. a child] would..select the most pathetical Psalmes,..to reade to his Mayde, during his sicknesse.

1698 H. Wanley in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) 258 The maid told me that Dr. Smith had been there since I went.

1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho II. xii. 466 You must dismiss your maid, lady.

1835 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 491 We kept no maid:—and I had much to do.

1860 Queen Victoria Jrnl. (1868) 138 The two maids had driven over by another road in the waggonette.

1880 ‘Ouida’ Moths I. 39 My maid must run up something for you to wear by to-morrow.

1927 Travel Nov. 48/1 (advt.) Steward, maid, waiters, porters and barber, attending your needs.

1960 S. Unwin Truth about Publisher i. i. 20 To wait on ourselves at supper..to give the maids a Sunday evening's rest.

1991 San Francisco Chron. 26 July b5/4 She not only left her husband..but she left her cook, and her chauffeur and her maid.

单词	chambermaid
释义	chambermaidn. Brit. /ˈtʃeɪmbəmeɪd/, U.S. /ˈtʃeɪmbərˌmeɪd/ Forms: see chamber n. and maid n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: chamber n., maid n.¹ Etymology: < chamber n. + maid n.¹ Compare Middle French, French femme de chambre (second half of the 14th cent.), (now rare) fille de chambre (1550 or earlier), Dutch kamerjuffer (Middle Dutch camerjoncvrouwe , camerjoffrouwe ), kamermaagd (Middle Dutch camermaget , kamermaight , etc.), Middle Low German kāmerjuncvrouwe , kāmermāget , German Kammerjungfer (15th cent. as kamerjonffer ), Kammerjungfrau (1474), Kammermagd (beginning of the 15th cent. as kammermagt ), all in sense ‘lady's maid’. Compare earlier chamberer n. and its French etymon. 1. A lady's maid. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [noun] > lady's maid chamberlaina1400 waiting-maid1561 chambermaid1569 lady's maid1577 tire-woman1615 abigail1616 fille de chambre1673 suivante1674 comb-brush1702 tiring-woman1732 femme de chambre1741 lady's woman1748 personal maid1748 comb-brusher1751 ayah1782 wardrobe maid1797 soubrette1824 camerist1838 tire-maid1871 1569 E. Fenton tr. P. Boaistuau Certaine Secrete Wonders Nature xxxvii. f. 129 Diuers souldioures had violated their hostesse chamber maide [Fr. la chambriere de leur hostesse]. 1590 R. Greene Neuer too Late i. 50 He vnderstood by her chamber maide that she was at home. 1658 A. Cokayne Small Poems 35 Ask but a Chamber-maid..what her young Lady doth. 1691 Satyr against French 15 She must be thought ill-manner'd or ill-bred Whose Woman, Confident, or Chambermaid Did not in France suck in her first-breath'd Air. 1719–20 J. Swift Let. to Young Gentleman (1721) 6 He used to consult one of his Lady's Chambermaids. 1770 G. Colman Portrait i. 2 When a smart gallant Makes amorous advances, A modern lady trusts her chambermaid. 1833 Lady Morgan Manor Sackville i, in Dramatic Scenes I. 20 The out-of-livery servants, sir, and a young woman as called herself my Lady's own chambermaid. 1896 Times 25 Feb. 14/4 An English lady was robbed of jewels worth 30,000f. She accused her chambermaid. 1934 PMLA 49 797 Maria, a chambermaid, marries a knight who is uncle, or at least cousin, to her noble mistress. 1987 Times (Nexis) 11 Nov. The company set up a court of love with the lady's chambermaid as queen. 2. a. A woman employed to clean the bedrooms in a house or hotel. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > domestic servant > [noun] > servant having care of bedchambers > woman or girl chamberer1340 chambermaid1578 chambress1656 femme de chambre1800 1578 H. Wotton tr. J. Yver Courtlie Controuersie v. 272 Bearded men weare biggins, driueling and dandeling in their mothers lappes, betwene sisters and the chambermaids [Fr. entre leur seur & la chambriere]. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxxiv. 634 He whom the Chambermayd had made amazed. c1610 Lady Compton in Grose's Antiquarian Repertory (1808) III. 438 Not pestering my Things with my Womens, nor theirs with Chambermaids, nor theirs with Washmaids. a1642 J. Suckling Goblins iii. 31 in Fragmenta Aurea (1646) Camber maides, and country wenches About thirty. 1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical x. 128 My Grandmother was never without a Dozen Chamber-Maids and Nurses in Family. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iv. xxix. 153 A ballad tune sung by the coarse-piped chamber maid. 1803 Censor 1 Mar. 31 Six-pence to the chamber-maid, six-pence to the ostler, and six-pence to the jack-boot. 1849 J. W. Carlyle Lett. II. 70 The chamber-maid came to say a gentleman was asking for me. 1922 D. H. Lawrence Aaron's Rod (N.Y. ed.) xiv. 200 He did not notice the dinner-gong, and only the arrival of the chamber-maid..sent him down to the restaurant. 1951 G. Heyer Quiet Gentleman xxii. 329 The housekeeper..bustled in, armed with smelling-salts and sal volatile, and followed by a couple of chambermaids. 1998 Independent 6 May ii. 5/4 I've been unfortunate enough to work as a chambermaid myself, in a scuzzy hotel in Paris. †b. Theatre. The type of a light comedy role for a woman, as a lady's maid, waitress, etc. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > part or character > [noun] > types of part or character underpart1679 persona muta1714 travesty1732 soubrette1753 old man1762 small part?1774 breeches-part1779 character part1811 fat1812 chambermaida1828 fool?1835 raisonneur1845 ingénue1848 villain of the piece1854 stock character1864 feeder1866 satirette1870 character role1871 travesty1887 thinking part1890 walk-on1902 cardboard cutout1906 bit1926 good guy1928 feed1929 bad guy1932 goody1934 walkthrough1935 narrator1941 cameo1950 black hat1959 a1828 J. Bernard Retrospections of Stage (1830) I. x. 281 Mrs Gardner of the Haymarket, a chambermaid actress of great merit. 1850 C. Lyell 2nd Visit U.S. (ed. 2) II. 216 She liked much to act chambermaid, as then she was not expected to learn her part so accurately. 1885 W. C. Day Behind Footlights 120 We have the..singing chambermaid, to whose fascination, loquacity and chronic curiosity..the audience is indebted for no inconsiderable portion of its enjoyment. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021). chambermaidv. Brit. /ˈtʃeɪmbəmeɪd/, U.S. /ˈtʃeɪmbərˌmeɪd/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: chambermaid n. Etymology: < chambermaid n. Compare later maid v. intransitive. To perform the work of a chambermaid (chambermaid n. 2a); to clean and tidy bedrooms. Also occasionally transitive: to clean and tidy (a bedroom). ΚΠ 1875 T. Yelverton Teresina in Amer. II. xxiv. 270 Biddy, with her ten years chamber-maiding, her husband bar-keeping, soon realizes an independence. 1920 O. R. Cohen Come Seven 287 She ransacked the storehouse of memory for such scraps of movie vernacular and bits of professional patter as she had heard drip from the incarnadined lips of the stars for whom she had chambermaided. 1998 Observer (Nexis) 15 Mar. 50 You have to leave your room at an appointed hour or it won't get chambermaided. 2004 J. Libaire Here Kitty Kitty 14 On the Cape, I chambermaided at a motor lodge, lifting a pair of cuff links here,a pint of Southern Comfort there. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021). > as lemmas chamber-maid a. A female servant or attendant; a maidservant; often with defining word prefixed as bar-maid, chamber-maid, farm-maid, house-maid, nurse-maid, servant-maid, etc.; lady's maid (see lady's maid n.). Cf. maiden n. 3. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > [noun] > woman or girl maidenOE schelchenec1000 womanOE maidc1300 ancillec1366 wench1380 child-womana1382 maidservanta1382 serving-womana1398 servantessa1425 servant maid?a1450 woman servant1450 servitrice1477 administress1483 ministressa1500 serving maid?1529 maiden-servant1533 servitrix1566 miskin-fro1585 servant girl1658 girl1668 necessary womanc1689 scout1708 servitress1827 ancilla1871 c1300 St. Mary Magdalen (Laud) 492 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 476 Heo haueȝ i-beon min hou[s]wif, mi mayde, and mi norice. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) i. 2573 Sche..goth to chambre and hath compleigned Unto a Maide which sche triste. 1461 in F. B. Bickley Little Red Bk. Bristol (1900) II. 127 No person..sett..his seid wyfe, daughter, or maide to no suche occupacion of weuyng. a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 59/1 Y^t it was not princely to mary hys owne subiect,..onely as it were a rich man that would mary his mayde. 1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (rev. ed.) f. 6 Thy nychtbouris wyfe..Thow couet not, to the..his oxe, his maide nor page. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1658 (1955) III. 208 He [sc. a child] would..select the most pathetical Psalmes,..to reade to his Mayde, during his sicknesse. 1698 H. Wanley in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) 258 The maid told me that Dr. Smith had been there since I went. 1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho II. xii. 466 You must dismiss your maid, lady. 1835 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 491 We kept no maid:—and I had much to do. 1860 Queen Victoria Jrnl. (1868) 138 The two maids had driven over by another road in the waggonette. 1880 ‘Ouida’ Moths I. 39 My maid must run up something for you to wear by to-morrow. 1927 Travel Nov. 48/1 (advt.) Steward, maid, waiters, porters and barber, attending your needs. 1960 S. Unwin Truth about Publisher i. i. 20 To wait on ourselves at supper..to give the maids a Sunday evening's rest. 1991 San Francisco Chron. 26 July b5/4 She not only left her husband..but she left her cook, and her chauffeur and her maid. extracted from maidn.¹ < n.1569v.1875 as lemmas
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