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From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Related topics: Household
housemaidhouse‧maid /ˈhaʊsmeɪd/ noun [countable] old-fashionedDH a female servant who cleans someone’s house
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housemaid• They hit the headlines last year when Richard left his first wife, Caroline, a housemaid with Princess Diana.• She knocked quietly, as good discreet housemaids do, on Maman's door.• In place of a wand she had housemaids, parlor maids, laundresses, cooks, and a rotund chauffeur named Courtney.• One such sceptic, a certain Montgomery, is likened to a prickly housemaid.• She had been second housemaid at Chesney Hall and Arthur Naulls had been under-gardener.• Sally Jo Bannow makes even Edith the housemaid into a major comic character.• Jean, the housemaid, wrote regularly.
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