A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
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Examples for "maid"
Examples for "maid"
1Burt said yes and he smild and that maid me feel good.
2Being a maid however can also mean not having much legal protection.
3Nancy ran for the maid; for tablets of aspirin; for wet handkerchiefs.
4The cabinet ministers telephoned in vain; he was out, the maid said.
5The maid brought in the coffee and went back to the kitchen.
1The little housemaid caught me in the net of her golden locks.
2The housemaid retired; and Mr Witherington took some time to compose himself.
3The cook and the housemaid occupied a bed-room on the kitchen floor.
4The cook and housemaid who succeeded them were jail-birds pure and simple.
5One other detail of interest was remembered by Jane Stewart, the housemaid.
1A young maidservant in a neat grey uniform entered with a tray.
2And then... one morning in October... the maidservant screamed in Thomas's bedchamber.
3His modest Devonshire establishment was managed by a maidservant named Prudence Baldwin.
4A maidservant answered his knock and immediately conducted him to a drawing-room.
5Ernestine's trim little maidservant was announcing a visitor who followed close behind.
1We were alone in the house, except for the amah and Angus.
2Their voices and the answers of the serving amah filled the kitchen with noise.
3The amah is yours to hire-orfire if you wish.
4It was all worth it for moments like this with my family, my sister, my amah.
5The amah's voice laughed with an equal gaiety.
6The amah broke into the first broad smile that had appeared on her face in London.
7The amah shouldered the steaming buckets and splashed across the bare boards of the ancestral hall beyond.
8An amah brought him rice and tea.
9The amah suffered from homesickness and her employer thought up little things to keep her interested and happy.
10An amah called, "The morning rice is ready."
11At ninety-four, my maternal amah had lived to see five of her children bring thirty-one grandchildren into the world.
12There are a special group of strong-armed women, called amah sans-a term of Japanese origin meaning "sea girls."
13She was about to enter when her amah came from the back of the house where the servants quarters were.
14There was the amah in the car and she took Angus and carried him against her as soft as any mother.
15The amah had gone home or had been given notice, and the house was full of suitcases half packed, or packed and opened again.
16But Amah was a greedy woman when it came to her family.