| 单词 | lady help |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslady help lady help, a lady engaged as assistant and companion to the mistress of a house. mother's help, a young woman employed to help in the nursery, but in a position reckoned superior to that of a nurse-maid.extracted from helpn.lady help lady help n. a refined woman engaged to perform domestic service; cf. Compounds 1d(c). ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > domestic servant > [noun] > female > that is a lady lady help1848 1848 Graham's Mag. Mar. 180/1 My Aunt Lina's paragon is a ‘lady-help’. Of all kinds ‘of help’ the very one I have endeavored most to avoid; it is such a nondescript kind of creature that lady-help. 1875 Punch 11 Sept. 98/1 In poor genteel families, lady-helps could hardly expect any wages. 1922 ‘K. Mansfield’ Garden Party (1923) 15 Mrs. S. J. and the poor lady-help drew up what she called a ‘brogramme’ every morning to keep them ‘abused and out of bischief’. 1973 Times 6 Nov. 38/1 (advt.) Reliable lady help required for large country house in Surrey. 1997 N. Tonkovich Domesticity with Difference vii. 145 Hale does not consider whence the lady-help originated. Who but gentlewomen fallen on hard times or unmarried female relatives might provide the dainty and tastefully refined services this lady-helper would render? < as lemmas |
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