2. Verb. (third-person singular of housemaid) ¹
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Definition of Housemaids
1. housemaid [n] - See also: housemaid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Housemaids
Literary usage of Housemaids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sanitary House Drainage: Its Principles and Practice : a Handbook for the by Thomas Everitt Coleman (1896)
"housemaids' SLOP SINKS :—Combined closet and slop sink—housemaids' ... A housemaids'
washing-up sink must also be provided in some convenient place. ..."
2. Dangerous Trades: The Historical, Social, and Legal Aspects of Industrial by Thomas Oliver (1902)
"My own experience at the Newcastle Infirmary is that housemaids suffer in at
least as large a proportion as cooks do from ulcer of the stomach, ..."
3. The Upper Canada Law Journal and Municipal and Local Courts' Gazette by William S. Hein & Company (1860)
"... In England, we advertise in a different way in the newspapers, thus— " The
Metropolitan housemaids' Window-cleaning Protection Act, ..."
4. Pages from a Private Diary by Henry Charles Beeching (1899)
"But whether the ball was held, and whether, in consequence, the Barchester cooks
and housemaids have all moved on one place like the guests at the Mad ..."
5. An Encyclopædia of Domestic Economy by Thomas Webster, William Parkes (1855)
"The housemaids'1 duties being so far performed, their next employment is to
prepare the bedrooms for sweeping, by covering the beds, together with the ..."
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