Definition of Maidservants

1. Noun. (plural of maidservant) ¹

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Definition of Maidservants

1. maidservant [n] - See also: maidservant

Lexicographical Neighbors of Maidservants

maidhoods
maiding
maidish
maidism
maidisms
maidkin
maidless
maidlier
maidliest
maidlike
maidly
maidmarian
maids
maids of honour
maidservant
maidservants (current term)
maiest
maieutic
maieutic method
maieutical
maieutically
maieutics
maiger
maigre
maigres
maihem
maihems
maik
maikel

Literary usage of Maidservants

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British ...by British Museum Dept. of Printed Books, George Knottesford Fortescue by British Museum Dept. of Printed Books, George Knottesford Fortescue (1891)
"1887. 8». 7404. c. 13. GORDON (IM) Countess of Aberdeen. Mistresses Pam. 82. GREEN (DR) Housekeeper's Friend. and maidservants, pp. 24. Aberd. 1884. 12°. ..."

2. Old Cottages, Farm-houses, and Other Stone Buildings in the Cotswold by Edward Guy Dawber (1905)
"The daughters of the house and maidservants lay in rooms on one side, say the right, with the maids in those most distant ..."

3. The Patristic Gospels: An English Version of the Holy Gospels as They by Roslyn D'Onston (1904)
"45 But if that servant say in bis heart, My lord delayeth his coming ; and shall begin to heat the menser- vants and the 51 maidservants, and to eat and ..."

4. Chief Contemporary Dramatists: Twenty Plays from the Recent Drama of England by Thomas Herbert Dickinson (1915)
"maidservants. We are pulling ; we *r* pulling. . . . PORTER. ... OTHER maidservants. Fetch the water ! fetch the water ! PORTER. ..."

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