lady's maid
Noun
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Noun
lady's maid
- A female servant employed by an upper-class woman to attend to her personal needs.
- 1735, Anonymous, The Rake’s Progress; or, the Humours of Drury-Lane, London: J. Chettwood, Canto V, p. 35,
- A pretty Girl, the Lady’s Maid,
- Who all her Dress in Order Laid,
- Behind her Mistress simp’ring stood,
- And rais’d the youthful ’Squires Blood.
- 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter 12,
- He stopped, ran his eye over my dress, which, as usual, was quite simple: a black merino cloak, a black beaver bonnet; neither of them half fine enough for a lady’s-maid.
- 1881, Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady, Chapter 36,
- […] the servant, a neat, plain woman, with a French face and a lady’s maid’s manner, ushered him into a diminutive drawing-room and requested the favour of his name.
- 1915, H. G. Wells, Bealby, Chapter I, Section 1,
- The cat is the offspring of a cat and the dog of a dog, but butlers and lady’s maids do not reproduce their kind. They have other duties.
- 1922, Emily Post, Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home, Chapter 12,
- A first class lady’s maid is required to be a hairdresser, a good packer and an expert needlewoman. Her first duty is to keep her lady's clothes in order and to help her dress, and undress.
- 1735, Anonymous, The Rake’s Progress; or, the Humours of Drury-Lane, London: J. Chettwood, Canto V, p. 35,
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