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Definition of Maidservant
1. Noun. A female domestic.
Specialized synonyms: Chambermaid, Fille De Chambre, Handmaid, Handmaiden, Lady's Maid, Parlormaid, Parlourmaid
Generic synonyms: Domestic, Domestic Help, House Servant
Definition of Maidservant
1. n. A female servant.
Definition of Maidservant
1. Noun. A female servant, a maid ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Maidservant
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Maidservant
1. A female servant. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Maidservant
Literary usage of Maidservant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance of the Old Testament by George V. Wigram (1866)
"17. his wife, and Ai« maidservant! ; :. Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for
the son of this bondwoman 12. because of thy bondwoman; 13. also of the son ..."
2. The Autobiography of a Newspaper Girl by Elizabeth L. Banks (1902)
"CHAPTER VII I BECOME A maidservant I HAD resided in England something less than
a year when I donned a cap and apron with the purpose of getting experience ..."
3. Chief Contemporary Dramatists: Twenty Plays from the Recent Drama of England by Thomas Herbert Dickinson (1915)
"FIRST maidservant. It is light enough without ; I see the sunlight through the
chinks. ... SECOND maidservant. We shall never be able to clean all this. ..."
4. A Dictionary of the Bible: Dealing with Its Language, Literature, and by Samuel Rolles Driver, James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie (1900)
"4. ncx 'amah, a maidservant, ¡soften rendered 'handmaid' or 'maidservant,' but
also simply 'maid' in On 303, Ex 2s (RV 'handmaid ') 21-«- », Lv 25", ..."
5. The Library of Original Sources: Ideas that Have Influenced Civilization, in edited by Oliver Joseph Thatcher (1915)
"If a man has bought a manservant or a maidservant, and he has not fulfilled ...
If a man has bought in a foreign land the manservant or the maidservant of a ..."
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