单词 | servantless |
释义 | servantlessadj. Having no servant or servants (in various senses of the noun); devoid of servants. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > a lover > [adjective] > provided with or having a lover or mate > without a lover or mate mateless1599 servantless1658 loverless1824 unmating1857 society > authority > subjection > service > servant > [adjective] > having a servant > not having servants servantless1883 staffless1957 1658 A. Cokayne Small Poems 158 One of less beauty and..Servant-less, sooner should my heart command. 1833 Royal Lady's Mag. Feb. 89 In a month or so after the propagation of this little work we shall be servantless, if not helpless. 1883 R. L. Stevenson Silverado Squatters 189 We must go to our mountain servantless. 1903 Washington Post 29 Oct. 6/5 Mayor Barker, whose household was servantless for three days, went into his own kitchen and cooked a dinner. 1999 K. Hickman Daughters of Britannia (2000) iv. 69 In our own servantless age, it is hard to imagine how diplomatic women depended on their domestic households. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1658 |
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