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barmaiden

noun

Etymology

From bar + maiden.

  1. derived from *magaþs✻
  2. derived from *magaþ✻
  3. inherited from mæġden — “girl”
  4. inherited from mayden
  5. compounded as barmaiden — “bar + maiden”

Definitions

  1. Synonym of barmaid.

    • And here in this snug little Inn, I exclaimed, / With a barmaiden knowing, and pretty, and sly; / Who to love and confess it would not be ashamed, / How blest could I live, how reluctantly die.
    • Anything less like the flashy-dressed bar-maidens of the western gin palaces it would be difficult to imagine.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA