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housemaid

/hous-meyd/US // ˈhaʊsˌmeɪd //UK // (ˈhaʊsˌmeɪd) //

女佣,女仆,家政服务员,女佣人

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a female servant employed in general domestic work in a home, especially to do housework.

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Examples

  • Grace Campbell, 18 years old, takes a job as a housemaid at Number 35, Park Lane.

  • An Irish housemaid who was sent to call a gentleman to dinner, found him engaged in using a tooth-brush.

  • The crickets chirped merrily upon the hearth of the housemaid's pantry, where the remains of a fire still smouldered.

  • He allowed himself to be cut free from the salmon line and dragged behind a kind of housemaid's closet at the foot of the stairs.

  • He lay on the couch with his face buried in the pillows, and thinking it was the housemaid he said, "Come in," without looking up.

  • Early the next morning, when the housemaid had opened my front door, there was Pritchard sitting outside.