Meaning of servingmaid | Babel Free

Definitions

A female servant.

historical

Examples

“It is not for the royal son of King Goldemar to make sport of peasant servingmaids;”

“It was what Lenin, a realistic thinker, had meant when he said that every servingmaid should be capable of running the state.”

“Therefore because of her nobility she pays no attention to outer appearance, and the servingmaid, in the lowest place, is more gorgeous than she.”

“The Castle Housekeeper stood there casually watching three servingmaids polish the same banister over and over again, and she looked up as I stepped under the doorbeam and pretended to be surprised.”

“[…] meanwhile one of his agents rented a stable, filled it with Arabian horses and offloaded from the Sava, and sold them all, very dear, to dukes, mercenaries and ruiners of servingmaids.”

“If you’re born a servingmaid, daughter to a servingmaid, who was daughter to a servingmaid in her turn, you know not to expect too much of life.”

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