barmaidnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈbɑː.meɪd/us/ˈbɑːr.meɪd/UKa woman who serves drinks in a bar
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Selling & serving alcoholic drinks
- bar
- barkeeper
- barman
- bartender
- beer garden
- cut sb off
- gastropub
- hostelry
- innkeeper
- landlady
- licensee
- liquor store
- lock-in
- nineteenth
- public house
- publican
- roadhouse
- saloon
- saloon bar
- say when idiom
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Examples from literature
- Admiration mingled with disbelief in the barmaid's voice.
- Because there happens to be a pretty barmaid there?
- He drank a pint of ale, and was seen conversing with a shabbily dressed stranger, whose face was unfamiliar to the publican and the barmaid.
- Mr. Carter called for some more beer and told the barmaid to put a little gin in it.
- The barmaid came flying out to fetch drinks as they entered.