单词 | maidservant |
释义 | maidservant (once / 11333 pages) n WORD FAMILY maidservant: maidservants USAGE EXAMPLESShe handed the loose end to her maidservant and told her to walk. Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex: A Novel(2002) Maidservants gave them baths, anointed them, held out fresh tunics, cloaked them warm; and soon they took tall thrones beside the son of Atreus. Homer, The Odyssey(1961) Her female crew consisted entirely of maidservants dressed as sea nymphs. Susan Blackaby, Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: E...(2009) n a female domestic Syn|Hypo|Hyper amah, housemaid, maid chambermaid, fille de chambre a maid who is employed to clean and care for bedrooms (now primarily in hotels) handmaid, handmaidena personal maid or female attendant lady's maida maid who is a lady's personal attendant parlormaid, parlourmaida maid in a private home whose duties are to care for the parlor and the table and to answer the door domestic, domestic help, house servant a servant who is paid to perform menial tasks around the household |
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