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handmaiden

US // (ˈhændˌmeɪdən) //

婢女,女仆,侍女,女佣人

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person or thing that serves a useful but subordinate purposelogic is the handmaid of philosophy
    • : archaic a female servant or attendant

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Examples

  • Corporate America and its ideologues embraced government intervention as long as Washington served as its handmaiden.

  • It was humiliating for the GOP majority to play the handmaiden to minority leader Nancy Pelosi.

  • One handmaiden, however, cannot wait to find a suitable male and finds an empty stairwell to take matters into her own hands.

  • In the field of politics, fear has been the handmaiden of power since the beginning of time.

  • Or, the story of Abraham's affair with Hagar, his handmaiden?

  • She had been their mother's handmaiden before their mother's marriage.

  • Of what use to labour, to struggle, to deny myself, for an art to which I can never be more than the humblest handmaiden?

  • Remember me to your elderly and amiable handmaiden, whose beaten biscuit I recall with such felicity.

  • Chloe, the black handmaiden who stood at the door, latch in hand, had time to grow tired of waiting before her mistress spoke.