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Definition of Maids
1. maid [n] - See also: maid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Maids
Literary usage of Maids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anomalies and curiosities of medicine by George Milbry Gould, Walter Lytle Pyle (1901)
"Thus, of the 8 cases which Taruffi has collected, in 7 the twins were female ;
and if to these we add the sisters Rosalie and Josepha Blazek and the maids, ..."
2. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1835)
"We have, after an Introductory and Dedicatory Chapter, a classification of Old
maids; suchas, Voluntary Old maids—Involuntary Old maids—then come Accidental ..."
3. Daniel Defoe: His Life and Recently Discovered Writings: Extending from 1716 by Lee, William, Daniel Defoe (1869)
"Now if this was the Justice of the OLD-maids, Mr. APP., to the poor little Babby
that could give them no Offence; what must the young grown Ladies expect to ..."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1850)
"But the maids ot honour were not to be thus foiled of their Christmas-box, ...
Mr. Penne,—Her majesties maids of Honour having acquainted me that ..."
5. Original Plays by William Schwenck Gilbert (1908)
"Three little maids from school are we, Pert as a schoolgirl well can be, ...
Three little maids is the total sum. The Three. Three little maids from school! ..."
6. Virginia: A History of the People by John Esten Cooke (1883)
"THE maids AND FIRST SLAVES. ABOUT the moment when Virginia thus secured the ...
The " maids," as the chronicle styles them, came at the instigation of Sir ..."
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