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cook-maid /ˈkʊkmeɪd /nounA female domestic servant who cooks or is an assistant to a cook: the establishment consisted of a cook-maid, a coachman, and a little footboy...- This from my rich old Uncle Ned, Thanking me for my annual present; And saying he last Tuesday wed His cook-maid, Molly -- vastly pleasant!
- A number of Swift's later poems on Irish subjects incorporate similar versions of the "cook-maid" theme, however, especially within the so-called Market Hill group of poems.
- More indicative still, however, is a proverbial usage common to Win and Mary the cook-maid.
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