Meaning of barmaiden | Babel Free

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Synonym of barmaid.

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“And here in this snug little Inn, I exclaimed, / With a barmaiden knowing, and pretty, and sly; / Who to love and confess it would not be ashamed, / How blest could I live, how reluctantly die.”

“Anything less like the flashy-dressed bar-maidens of the western gin palaces it would be difficult to imagine.”

“There being no appearance of wind, we passed the night at Port Chalmers—that semi-amphibious town, whose inhabitants seem to consist chiefly of sailors, shipchandlers, boatmen, barmen, and barmaidens, and an eccentric barber, who has, quite naturally, transferred his services from Greenwich to Port Chalmers.”

“It is all clean forgotten: machinery in motion, fine arts galleries, foreign commissioners and their squabbles, the Russian village, the Prussian gun, Spiers and Pond’s blonde bar-maidens, the Chinese theatre, the Imperial kiosque, and the American cream-soda saloon.”

““Excellent!” I answered, “finest in the world; take half a page?” “Well, I don’t mind if I do,” he said, and he handed his glass to the nearest barmaiden.”

“Under the heading of “Betsy at the Bar.—A Story of ‘Shouting’ at Charleston,” the Nelson Colonist says:—And the barmaiden whispered ’twere better by far, to make flats pay for champagne who bet at the bar.”

“Go to dinner in Refreshment Room. Brilliant Barmaiden standing out against a background of brilliant and variegated bottles, like what a fancy chemist’s shop might be.”

“Country visitors to the Agricultural-hall seem chronically hungry, while the town visitors are distinguished, on the contrary, by their addiction to the fluids dispensed by the wondrous barmaidens of Messrs. Spiers and Pond.”

“I don’t think that barmen and barmaidens are in the habit of intermarrying.”

“As Jews are forbidden to marry with Christians, Mr. Goodman had no business to look with desiring eyes upon the fair bar-maiden at the Steam Clock any more than Brian de Bois Guilbert had to look favourably upon the daughter of Isaac of York.”

“Manfully he bore the punishment until a few days ago, when he received a telegram from the barmaiden to this effect—“Come down, darling, I’m dying to see you.””

“A song or a tale in your own C. T. room, / Is pleasant to hear now and then; / But avoid the bar where local men meet, / And ever the barmaiden’s “den!””

“His eye does not close rapidly in the direction of a dyed barmaiden, nor does he smirk in Grafton-street between the hours of three and six o’clock.”

“[…] in taking leave of the forlorn barmaiden, he extended her his hand in token of the sympathy he felt.”

“It will prove difficult in practice to determine whether a girl is or is not “showily-dressed,” and doubtless many barmaidens will appear even more fascinating to youths of the opposite sex when dressed in a manner the reverse of showy.”

“It is not difficult for the wealthy brewer or pluralist publican, while he takes his ease in his comfortable dwelling on the Lord’s Day, or rolls in his chariot to the house of prayer, to denounce the agitation in favour of Sunday-closing, while his weary barmen and barmaidens “work from early morn to midnight” to carpet his ample halls and stable his well-fed horses.”

“Lifting my hat, for etiquette, / And mopping from my brow the swuette, / The smiling barmaiden I muette.”

“Beware of the famous Prestonpans ale, which is so temptingly advertised by freckled and bonnie barmaidens of Perth.”

“The faces of the barmaidens had risen in color, each having a pink flush on her cheek; […]”

“The essence of the Circumlocution Office is thin and weak, compared to the scorn of the Railway barmaiden, “the eighth wonder of monarchical creation.””

“I think I’ll trundle around to a pubs and meet another nice barmaiden. When you come right down to it, barmaidens are the oney soulful individuals in the whole English Isle. They unnerstand life.”

“Shirley, Max’s daughter, oldest of the three barmaidens serving in the tavern, strutted purposefully past her two sisters to the ruckus in the rear.”

“Perdziola sets the scene with the arrival of an opera company in elegant “street clothes” of jackets, breeches and cloaks contrasted by Zerbinetta’s comic troupe and her saucy barmaiden appeal.”

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“In the early evening, the bar fills with regulars trading anecdotes with tattooed, comely, competence-oozing barmaidens.”

““I said, ‘Hello, I’m Miss Kay and I’m a Christian barmaiden, and everybody in here doesn’t need to be drinking,’” she [Kay Robertson] said to laughter from the crowd.”

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