handmaid

/hand-meyd/US // ˈhændˌmeɪd //

婢女,女仆,女佣,女佣人

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : something that is necessarily subservient or subordinate to another: Ceremony is but the handmaid of worship.
- : a female servant or attendant.

The Handmaid only finds liberation when she steals out of her room to bed the chauffeur.
Gaze not upon another man's wife, and be not inquisitive after his handmaid, and approach not her bed.
But you found me giving a lesson in Armenian to this handmaid?
Geometry is desirable, not as a noble intellectual exercise, but as a handmaid to natural philosophy.
As time went on she came to entertain the clearest views as to science being the handmaid of religion.
Friendship was given us by nature as the handmaid of virtues and not as the companion of our vices.