housemaid

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house·maid /ˈhaʊsmeɪd/ noun [countable]  old-fashionedDH a female servant who cleans someone’s house 女佣，女仆

Examples from the Corpus

housemaid• They hit the headlines last year when Richard left his first wife, Caroline, a housemaid with Princess Diana.• She knocked quietly, as good discreet housemaids do, on Maman's door.• In place of a wand she had housemaids, parlor maids, laundresses, cooks, and a rotund chauffeur named Courtney.• One such sceptic, a certain Montgomery, is likened to a prickly housemaid.• She had been second housemaid at Chesney Hall and Arthur Naulls had been under-gardener.• Sally Jo Bannow makes even Edith the housemaid into a major comic character.• Jean, the housemaid, wrote regularly.

house·maid nounChineseSyllable  

cleans female who Corpus house servant a someone’s

housemaid
house‧maid /ˈhaʊsmeɪd/ noun [countable]
old-fashioned a female servant who cleans someone’s house

house·maidBrE /ˈhaʊsmeɪd/ 🔊NAmE /ˈhaʊsmeɪd/ 🔊 noun (old-fashioned) a female servant in a large house who cleans the rooms, etc. and often lives there （家庭的）女仆，女佣