housemaidn.

Brit.

/ˈhaʊsmeɪd/, U.S.

/ˈhaʊsˌmeɪd/

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

Etymology: < house n.¹ + maid n.¹ Compare Dutch huismeid (1588 as †huysmaeght), German †Hausmaid (15th cent. as †hausmeid), Hausmagd (1561).

1. Originally: a female domestic servant, esp. one in charge of the reception rooms and bedrooms. Now more generally: a woman who is employed to perform various domestic tasks, esp. cleaning, in a person's home, a hotel, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > domestic servant > [noun] > maid or housemaid

housemaid1673

nan1725

mop-squeezer?1758

housemaidenhood1874

1673 Gentlewomans Compan. 216 (heading) Instructians [sic] for House-Maids in great Houses.

1694 N. H. Ladies Dict. 183/2 House-Maids, your principal Office is to make clean the greatest part of the House;..so that you suffer no room to lie foul.

1745 J. Swift Direct. to Servants 19 The House-maid may put out her Candle by running it against a Looking-glass.

1768 Gazetteer & New Daily Advertiser 17 Feb. (advt.) Wanted, a cook and housemaid in a regular family, both Protestants,..sober, and inclinable to stay a home.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. vii. iv. 353 The Housemaid, with early broom.

1882 Cent. Mag. June 314/2 All parts, should be accessible to the housemaid's scrubbing-brush and soap and hot water.

1898 E. Rowan Flower-hunter Queensland & N.Z. v. 57 Evening came at last, and I went for a walk with the housemaid from the hotel.

1938 Times 12 Oct. 9/5 The shelves of cabinets groan with a load of treasures which are probably rearranged by the housemaid each time she dusts them.

1985 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 20 Jan. She enjoys the privileges that life in a hotel can bring—like the housemaids who pop in each morning.

2003 E.-R. Laurens Bargain for Love v. 65 She laughed noisily enough to startle her housemaid serving coffee in the sumptuous living room.

†2. A small weight or block used for holding a door open; a doorstop. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > parts of door > [noun] > door fittings > door-stop

housemaid1898

doorstop1922

1898 Westm. Gaz. 19 Nov. 2/2 ‘Housemaid.’—A metal block or figure, used in a house for keeping a door open.

Compounds

C1. General attributive (also figurative).

ΚΠ

1833 Countess Granville Let. 27 Aug. (1894) II. 144 There is a vulgar, housemaid, common look in her features.

1853 G. J. Cayley Las Alforjas I. xiii. 314 I will destroy some of these beautiful cobwebs with the coarse housemaid-hand of truth in my next [letter].

1853 C. Brontë Villette xvii. 182 The silent descent of afternoon hushed housemaid steps on the stairs.

1916 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 16 890 In this hospital the average attendant is not of the housemaid type, but on quite an equal footing with the nurse as regards education and culture.

1947 Pop. Mech. Sept. 112/2 Several housemaid tasks are performed by a bedside electrical robot invented by A. D. Granger of London.

2003 J. Pryer Poverty & Vulnerability in Dhaka Slums 166 After they arrived in Dhaka she started doing a housemaid job while Jasmin, her elder son, started pulling a rickshaw.

C2.

housemaid's box n. now chiefly historical a box with a container for ashes and a tray above for brushes, dusters, etc., used when cleaning out a fireplace.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning house > [noun] > equipment for

fire brush1629

housemaid's box1842

1842 Catal. Tin, Japanned, & Zinc Wares 27/2 Housemaid's boxes, on rockers. 17 X 12, Japanned, with Sifter.

1861 I. M. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. xli. 988 Her housemaid's box, containing black-lead brushes..and all utensils necessary for cleaning a grate.

1950 J. Cannan Murder Included viii. 146 Sylvia, carrying a housemaid's box, fled at their approach.

2008 B. Crowe People don't grow by being Measured 71 I fetched the Housemaid's Box, with the space underneath for the ash and the tray on top holding the brush, shovel, and strip of floor covering.

housemaid's closet n. (also housemaids' closet) now rare a small room designed for the purpose of storing cleaning equipment, also often equipped with a sink.Usually only in large houses, typically built before the mid-20th cent.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > storage room

closet1532

spicery1536

bottle housea1637

housemaid's closet1819

housemaid's pantry1848

1819 Morning Post 2 Jan. 1/4 (advt.) The House contains five good attics; three good bed rooms and housemaid's closet on the second floor.

1906 M. H. Baillie-Scott Houses & Gardens x. 31 The housemaid's closet with its slop sink and spaces for pails and brooms.

1950 J. Cannan Murder Included iii. 55 There's a sort of housemaids' closet just at the head of the main staircase, and..they had an electric heater put in there so that the housemaid could make the early morning tea for everybody.

housemaid's cupboard n. = housemaid's closet n.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > cupboard or cabinet > [noun] > other cupboards or cabinets

Flanders chest1400

warestall1508

livery cupboard1571

boy1656

by-closet1696

corner-cupboard1711

India cabinet1721

pot-cupboard1789

housemaid's cupboard1843

monocleid1885

vargueño1911

console1925

cocktail cabinet1928

storage unit1951

1843 F. E. Paget Warden of Berkingholt x. 226 She led the way to the housemaid's cupboard, from the recesses of which she produced the delicacies in question.

1873 L. Troubridge Life amongst Troubridges (1966) vi. 52 He..spent nearly all the evening sulking and sobbing in the sink (in the housemaid's cupboard).

1999 Birmingham Post (Nexis) 13 Mar. 61 A large breakfast room and kitchen..with..an oil-fired Aga in the old inglenook plus..door to the garden hall with larder and housemaid's cupboard.

housemaid's glove n. now rare (usually in plural) a type of glove, typically made of a soft washable leather such as chamois, worn for protection when doing housework, esp. cleaning fireplaces, polishing cutlery, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for hands > [noun] > glove > types of > for specific purpose > gloves

housemaid's glove1846

mitt1892

baseball mitt1893

1846 Tract Mag. Jan. 42 I supply everything in the kitchen way: housemaid's gloves, black lead, servant's friend, bees' wax.

1868 H. W. Bellairs Church & School vii. 210 A bundle of sticks, a lucifer box, and a housemaid's glove puts you ‘in clover’.

1962 G. Avery Greatest Gresham vii. 132 Mabel..wearing housemaid's gloves, was cleaning the brass.

housemaid skirt n. (also housemaid's skirt) now historical a style of single-layered skirt fashionable in the late 19th cent.

ΚΠ

1884 Manch. Weekly Times 4 Oct. (Suppl.) 7/1 Some of the ‘housemaid’ skirts..have upright trimmings of broad pointed bands.

1884 Girl's Own Paper Nov. 58/1 The ‘housemaid skirt’, with its straight folds, lack of gores, and three or four tucks at the edge, seems to be..worn..by all the young girls.

1937 C. W. Cunnington Eng. Women's Clothing Nineteeth Cent. ix. 331/1 A popular..form of single skirt was..used this year [sc. 1885]..for homely occasions, known as the ‘housemaid skirt’.

1996 K. L. Seligman Cutting for All! ii. 121/1 Patterns for bodices,..dressing jacket, cape and hood, housemaid's skirt, and a five-gored skirt.

housemaid's knee inflammation of the bursa over the kneecap (prepatellar bursa), typically induced by kneeling on hard floors.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of joints > [noun] > bursitis > of knee

housemaid's knee1824

water on the knee1882

prepatellar bursitis1898

1824 C. Bell Observ. Injuries Spine & Thigh Bone 66 If..you see a young woman with swelling and pain of the knee-joint, and do not find this position of the limb and tension of the hamstring tendons, then is the inflammation exterior to the joint, and the case is probably only the ‘housemaid's knee’.

1889 J. K. Jerome Three Men in Boat i. 3 The only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee.

1904 Donahoe's Mag. Nov. 429/1 I once had the housemaid's knee from constant kneeling and scrubbing the little house where Georgie was born.

2003 Daily Tel. 28 Oct. 9/1 Doctors have added ‘cleaner's chest’ to the long list of occupational diseases, including housemaid's knee and writer's cramp.

housemaid's pantry n. = housemaid's closet n.

ΚΠ

1848 Times 28 Apr. 10/4 The mansion comprises..on the ground floor..drawing, dining, and breakfast rooms, two kitchens, and housemaid's pantry.

1922 L. Weaver Small Country Houses To-day (ed. 3) I. xxx. 148/2 In the housemaid's pantry there are three sets of cupboards, for glass, silver and china.

2004 Independent (Nexis) 29 May The main house has..six staff bedrooms, butlers' pantry and housemaids' pantry and wine cellar.

Derivatives

ˈhousemaiding n. [compare later maiding n. at maid v. Derivatives] the action of being a housemaid; housework; this as an occupation.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > work > [noun] > housework

housework1787

rough worka1852

housemaiding1858

rough1933

1858 ‘H. Lee’ Sylvan Holt's Daughter III. 136 I've had Martha fra' Oakfield hired into t' kitchen, an' two other lasses, both o' them steady hands to work for t' house-maiding.

1859 J. W. Carlyle Let. 21 Oct. in Lett. & Memorials (1883) III. 17 I had a deal of housemaiding to execute during the week.

1989 T. Parker Place called Bird xviii. 217 I left housemaiding and went to work for her.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

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	housemaid
释义	housemaidn. Brit. /ˈhaʊsmeɪd/, U.S. /ˈhaʊsˌmeɪd/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: house n.¹, maid n.¹ Etymology: < house n.¹ + maid n.¹ Compare Dutch huismeid (1588 as †huysmaeght), German †Hausmaid (15th cent. as †hausmeid), Hausmagd (1561). 1. Originally: a female domestic servant, esp. one in charge of the reception rooms and bedrooms. Now more generally: a woman who is employed to perform various domestic tasks, esp. cleaning, in a person's home, a hotel, etc. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > domestic servant > [noun] > maid or housemaid housemaid1673 nan1725 mop-squeezer?1758 housemaidenhood1874 1673 Gentlewomans Compan. 216 (heading) Instructians [sic] for House-Maids in great Houses. 1694 N. H. Ladies Dict. 183/2 House-Maids, your principal Office is to make clean the greatest part of the House;..so that you suffer no room to lie foul. 1745 J. Swift Direct. to Servants 19 The House-maid may put out her Candle by running it against a Looking-glass. 1768 Gazetteer & New Daily Advertiser 17 Feb. (advt.) Wanted, a cook and housemaid in a regular family, both Protestants,..sober, and inclinable to stay a home. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. vii. iv. 353 The Housemaid, with early broom. 1882 Cent. Mag. June 314/2 All parts, should be accessible to the housemaid's scrubbing-brush and soap and hot water. 1898 E. Rowan Flower-hunter Queensland & N.Z. v. 57 Evening came at last, and I went for a walk with the housemaid from the hotel. 1938 Times 12 Oct. 9/5 The shelves of cabinets groan with a load of treasures which are probably rearranged by the housemaid each time she dusts them. 1985 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 20 Jan. She enjoys the privileges that life in a hotel can bring—like the housemaids who pop in each morning. 2003 E.-R. Laurens Bargain for Love v. 65 She laughed noisily enough to startle her housemaid serving coffee in the sumptuous living room. †2. A small weight or block used for holding a door open; a doorstop. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > parts of door > [noun] > door fittings > door-stop housemaid1898 doorstop1922 1898 Westm. Gaz. 19 Nov. 2/2 ‘Housemaid.’—A metal block or figure, used in a house for keeping a door open. Compounds C1. General attributive (also figurative). ΚΠ 1833 Countess Granville Let. 27 Aug. (1894) II. 144 There is a vulgar, housemaid, common look in her features. 1853 G. J. Cayley Las Alforjas I. xiii. 314 I will destroy some of these beautiful cobwebs with the coarse housemaid-hand of truth in my next [letter]. 1853 C. Brontë Villette xvii. 182 The silent descent of afternoon hushed housemaid steps on the stairs. 1916 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 16 890 In this hospital the average attendant is not of the housemaid type, but on quite an equal footing with the nurse as regards education and culture. 1947 Pop. Mech. Sept. 112/2 Several housemaid tasks are performed by a bedside electrical robot invented by A. D. Granger of London. 2003 J. Pryer Poverty & Vulnerability in Dhaka Slums 166 After they arrived in Dhaka she started doing a housemaid job while Jasmin, her elder son, started pulling a rickshaw. C2. housemaid's box n. now chiefly historical a box with a container for ashes and a tray above for brushes, dusters, etc., used when cleaning out a fireplace. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning house > [noun] > equipment for fire brush1629 housemaid's box1842 1842 Catal. Tin, Japanned, & Zinc Wares 27/2 Housemaid's boxes, on rockers. 17 X 12, Japanned, with Sifter. 1861 I. M. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. xli. 988 Her housemaid's box, containing black-lead brushes..and all utensils necessary for cleaning a grate. 1950 J. Cannan Murder Included viii. 146 Sylvia, carrying a housemaid's box, fled at their approach. 2008 B. Crowe People don't grow by being Measured 71 I fetched the Housemaid's Box, with the space underneath for the ash and the tray on top holding the brush, shovel, and strip of floor covering. housemaid's closet n. (also housemaids' closet) now rare a small room designed for the purpose of storing cleaning equipment, also often equipped with a sink.Usually only in large houses, typically built before the mid-20th cent. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > storage room closet1532 spicery1536 bottle housea1637 housemaid's closet1819 housemaid's pantry1848 1819 Morning Post 2 Jan. 1/4 (advt.) The House contains five good attics; three good bed rooms and housemaid's closet on the second floor. 1906 M. H. Baillie-Scott Houses & Gardens x. 31 The housemaid's closet with its slop sink and spaces for pails and brooms. 1950 J. Cannan Murder Included iii. 55 There's a sort of housemaids' closet just at the head of the main staircase, and..they had an electric heater put in there so that the housemaid could make the early morning tea for everybody. housemaid's cupboard n. = housemaid's closet n. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > cupboard or cabinet > [noun] > other cupboards or cabinets Flanders chest1400 warestall1508 livery cupboard1571 boy1656 by-closet1696 corner-cupboard1711 India cabinet1721 pot-cupboard1789 housemaid's cupboard1843 monocleid1885 vargueño1911 console1925 cocktail cabinet1928 storage unit1951 1843 F. E. Paget Warden of Berkingholt x. 226 She led the way to the housemaid's cupboard, from the recesses of which she produced the delicacies in question. 1873 L. Troubridge Life amongst Troubridges (1966) vi. 52 He..spent nearly all the evening sulking and sobbing in the sink (in the housemaid's cupboard). 1999 Birmingham Post (Nexis) 13 Mar. 61 A large breakfast room and kitchen..with..an oil-fired Aga in the old inglenook plus..door to the garden hall with larder and housemaid's cupboard. housemaid's glove n. now rare (usually in plural) a type of glove, typically made of a soft washable leather such as chamois, worn for protection when doing housework, esp. cleaning fireplaces, polishing cutlery, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for hands > [noun] > glove > types of > for specific purpose > gloves housemaid's glove1846 mitt1892 baseball mitt1893 1846 Tract Mag. Jan. 42 I supply everything in the kitchen way: housemaid's gloves, black lead, servant's friend, bees' wax. 1868 H. W. Bellairs Church & School vii. 210 A bundle of sticks, a lucifer box, and a housemaid's glove puts you ‘in clover’. 1962 G. Avery Greatest Gresham vii. 132 Mabel..wearing housemaid's gloves, was cleaning the brass. housemaid skirt n. (also housemaid's skirt) now historical a style of single-layered skirt fashionable in the late 19th cent. ΚΠ 1884 Manch. Weekly Times 4 Oct. (Suppl.) 7/1 Some of the ‘housemaid’ skirts..have upright trimmings of broad pointed bands. 1884 Girl's Own Paper Nov. 58/1 The ‘housemaid skirt’, with its straight folds, lack of gores, and three or four tucks at the edge, seems to be..worn..by all the young girls. 1937 C. W. Cunnington Eng. Women's Clothing Nineteeth Cent. ix. 331/1 A popular..form of single skirt was..used this year [sc. 1885]..for homely occasions, known as the ‘housemaid skirt’. 1996 K. L. Seligman Cutting for All! ii. 121/1 Patterns for bodices,..dressing jacket, cape and hood, housemaid's skirt, and a five-gored skirt. housemaid's knee inflammation of the bursa over the kneecap (prepatellar bursa), typically induced by kneeling on hard floors. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of joints > [noun] > bursitis > of knee housemaid's knee1824 water on the knee1882 prepatellar bursitis1898 1824 C. Bell Observ. Injuries Spine & Thigh Bone 66 If..you see a young woman with swelling and pain of the knee-joint, and do not find this position of the limb and tension of the hamstring tendons, then is the inflammation exterior to the joint, and the case is probably only the ‘housemaid's knee’. 1889 J. K. Jerome Three Men in Boat i. 3 The only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee. 1904 Donahoe's Mag. Nov. 429/1 I once had the housemaid's knee from constant kneeling and scrubbing the little house where Georgie was born. 2003 Daily Tel. 28 Oct. 9/1 Doctors have added ‘cleaner's chest’ to the long list of occupational diseases, including housemaid's knee and writer's cramp. housemaid's pantry n. = housemaid's closet n. ΚΠ 1848 Times 28 Apr. 10/4 The mansion comprises..on the ground floor..drawing, dining, and breakfast rooms, two kitchens, and housemaid's pantry. 1922 L. Weaver Small Country Houses To-day (ed. 3) I. xxx. 148/2 In the housemaid's pantry there are three sets of cupboards, for glass, silver and china. 2004 Independent (Nexis) 29 May The main house has..six staff bedrooms, butlers' pantry and housemaids' pantry and wine cellar. Derivatives ˈhousemaiding n. [compare later maiding n. at maid v. Derivatives] the action of being a housemaid; housework; this as an occupation. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > work > [noun] > housework housework1787 rough worka1852 housemaiding1858 rough1933 1858 ‘H. Lee’ Sylvan Holt's Daughter III. 136 I've had Martha fra' Oakfield hired into t' kitchen, an' two other lasses, both o' them steady hands to work for t' house-maiding. 1859 J. W. Carlyle Let. 21 Oct. in Lett. & Memorials (1883) III. 17 I had a deal of housemaiding to execute during the week. 1989 T. Parker Place called Bird xviii. 217 I left housemaiding and went to work for her. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > as lemmas house-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.1673 as lemmas
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housemaidn.

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> as lemmas