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maid

/meyd/US // meɪd //UK // (meɪd) //

女仆,佣人,女佣,侍女

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a female domestic employee who cleans tourist accommodations or does cleaning or other housework in a home: a hotel maid.
    • : a female domestic servant with any of various duties, especially in a large house: a kitchen maid who assisted the cook; a handmaid; a lady’s maid; a nursery maid.
    • : Archaic. a girl or young unmarried woman.
    • : Archaic. a female virgin.

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Examples

  • Florida officials investigated Limbaugh over allegations that he paid a former maid to buy prescription drugs for him over a prolonged period of time.

  • A third of the city’s workers are informal — street vendors, delivery men, maids.

  • You can also summon Bonehilda, a fan-favorite skeletal maid from previous “Sims” games, to keep the house in order.

  • After she returns home from her errands, Clarissa chats with her husband Richard, mends a tear in her party dress, is surprised when Peter, an old flame, comes to visit and, with her maid Lucy, makes sure that everything’s ready for the gathering.

  • They are maids, nannies, cooks, plumbers, laborers and clerks.

  • Her father and stepmother both beat her, and she was forced to become a maid in her own house.

  • No wonder that of all the Bradys, it is the quintessential old maid who we miss the most.

  • She works as a maid, scrubbing floors and toilets of the well-to-do families in West Hartford, Connecticut.

  • As far as one of your nice-guy roles goes, my little sister loved Maid in Manhattan.

  • I did as she bade me, and left her there when the maid came in.

  • Finding him awake, he sat by his side and, with the earnestness of a nursery-maid, patted him off to slumber.

  • Why, he ordered his chamber-maid to bring him some soap and warm water, that he might wash the sour krout off his hands.

  • A trim maid then brought in the tea equipage, and Georgie did the honours with her usual unaffected grace.

  • When I am an old maid I am going to mount the platform and preach the training of the voice in childhood.

  • And Mrs. Haggard, after attempting to soothe the wounded feelings of her maid, directed her to accompany them.