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maidservant

[ meyd-sur-vuhnt ]

noun

  1. a female servant.


maidservant

/ ˈ³¾±ðɪ»åËŒ²õɜ˱¹É™²Ô³Ù /

noun

  1. a female servant
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of maidservant1

First recorded in 1520–30; maid + servant
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Why would the trusted seamstress and maidservant of Martha Washington, who had been at her side for more than ten years, run away in the first place?

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Ceruti was tagged “Pitocchetto†— the little beggar — given his fondness for pictures of maidservants, peasant families and vagrants in tattered rags.

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He enjoyed a privileged childhood: in a 2014 column for the Nikkei Shimbun newspaper, he recounted how his elementary school classmates had teased him when he revealed that he breakfasted with his family’s “maidservant.â€

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Like a scene from “Game of Thrones,†the Rubens shows a grinning maidservant pulling the tongue out from St. John the Baptist’s freshly severed head as she presents it on a platter to Salome.

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The guard rolled back the heavy gate and motioned for Nok to follow a maidservant standing behind him.

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