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单词 hired girl
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hired girl
b. hired man, hired woman, hired girl, hired people: applied to free men or women engaged as servants (the latter word being formerly used to include slaves). U.S.
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hiremanc975
hirelingc1000
leȝhemannc1175
allowes1348
merchantc1384
mercenaryc1387
hiring manc1425
pensioner1472
wageling?1545
pensionary1548
hired woman1639
help1645
engagee1808
1639 Plymouth Col. Rec. (1855) I. 122 Roberte Eldred, the hyred servant of Nicholas Sympkins for the terme of three yeares.
1714 tr. H. Joutel Jrnl. Last Voy. M. de la Sale 2 Hired People and Workmen of all Sorts, requisite for making of a Settlement.
1715 Laws of Maryland (1765) c. 44 §10 No Person whatsoever, shall trade..with any Servant, whether hired, or indented, or Slave..without Leave or License.
1737 Plymouth (Mass.) Town Rec. 18 May (1892) II. 321 A hired man with me on a fishing voyage.
1755 B. Franklin Observ. conc. Increase Mankind 6 in W. Clarke Observ. Late & Present Conduct French Slaves may be kept as long as a Man pleases..while hired Men are continually leaving their master (often in the midst of his Business).
1792 tr. J. P. Brissot de Warville New Trav. U.S.A. 400 They [Quakers] have no slaves; they employ negroes as hired servants.
1818 J. Flint Lett. from Amer. (1822) 9 Master is not a word in the vocabulary of hired people. Bos, a Dutch one of similar import, is substituted. The former is used by Negroes, and is by free people considered as synonymous with slave-keeper.
1820 J. Flint Lett. from Amer. (1822) 264 These I must call Americanisms..Hired Girl for Servant Girl. Hired Man for Servant Man.
1842 J. F. Watson Ann. Philadelphia & Pennsylvania (1877) I. 176 Now all hired girls appear abroad in the same style of dress as their ladies.
1877 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 4) Hired man, a man-servant. Hired woman, a servant-girl. Many servants dislike to be called such, and think it more respectable to say ‘help’ or ‘hired woman’.
1893 Nation (N.Y.) 19 Jan. 43/1 Where are the farms on which there is no place for the ‘hired man’ or ‘hired girl’?
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