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Definition of Servant girl
1. Noun. A girl who is a servant.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Servant Girl
Literary usage of Servant girl
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Baptist Missionary Magazine by American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (1898)
"THE LAUNDRY IN A JAPANESE HOME THE servant girl IN JAPAN WHEN a servant wishes
to leave a family, she rarely goes to her mistress and states that she is ..."
2. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1890)
"... a suitt of rooms, a tuit of cards, suite being frequently pronounced suit.
Sukey (servant-girls), a kettle. A servant-girl is frequently addressed as ..."
3. Stage-land: Curious Habits and Customs of Its Inhabitants by Jerome Klapka Jerome, Bernard Partridge (1890)
"... of servant girl to be met with on the stage. This is an unusual allowance for
one profession. There is the lodging-house slavey. She has a good heart, ..."
4. Stage-land: Curious Habits and Customs of Its Inhabitants by Jerome Klapka Jerome (1906)
"... two types of servant girl to be met with on the stage. This is an unusual
allowance for one profession. There is the lodging-house slavey. ..."
5. The Land of the Midnight Sun: Summer and Winter Journeys Through Sweden by Paul Belloni Du Chaillu (1888)
"A Rich Servant-girl.—Snow- shoes.—'Learning how to go on Snow-shoes.—A Cold Church.
... Servantgirl ..."
6. Lew Wallace; an Autobiography by Lew Wallace (1906)
"... ferry — Servant - girl's story of hanging—Fear of ghosts—The Irish
school-master—Learns to draw pictures of battles—Little colonel—Black Hawk War— ..."
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