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Meanings of maidservant in English

Portuguese
empregada doméstica
Catalan
minyona
Spanish
criada

A female domestic.

        empregada doméstica
        Usage of maidservant in English
        1
        A young maidservant in a neat grey uniform entered with a tray.
        The Asylum
        2
        And then... one morning in October... the maidservant screamed in Thomas's bedchamber.
        Speaks the Nightbird
        3
        His modest Devonshire establishment was managed by a maidservant named Prudence Baldwin.
        Ponkapog Papers
        4
        A maidservant answered his knock and immediately conducted him to a drawing-room.
        Jonathan strange and mr norrell
        5
        Ernestine's trim little maidservant was announcing a visitor who followed close behind.
        A Millionaire of Yesterday
        6
        Then Sarah smoothly resumed her previous role of perfectly behaved maidservant.
        The irish devil
        7
        After all, who would the kingdom believe...their Queen or a maidservant?
        Fairest of All
        8
        A maidservant ran barefoot up and down the passage several times.
        The Chorus Girl and Other Stories
        9
        The author's labours were cut short by the sudden intrusion of a maidservant.
        The Toys of Peace, and Other Papers
        10
        Her maidservant said that she did not know where she could be found.
        From the Housetops
        11
        I spoke like a queen, but was treated like a maidservant.
        International Short Stories: French
        12
        She was followed by a trembling young maidservant, clutching a voluminous carpet bag.
        I shall wear midnight
        13
        Her childhood friend and maidservant, Mary, pressed her nose to the carriage window.
        The spurned viscountess
        14
        The maidservant shook her finger at me and whispered, Don't go.
        A Moveable Feast
        15
        A maidservant was now collecting the used crockery, and the company was moving about.
        Lucky Jim
        16
        I commanded my maidservant to bring me my looking glass.
        Smoke and mirrors: short fictions and illusions
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        Maidservant through the time
        Maidservant across language varieties
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