lady's maid
nounDefinitions
A female servant employed by an upper-class woman to attend to her personal needs.
- Near-synonyms: chamberer, chambermaid (chamberer sense) (both broadly synonymous)
- A pretty Girl, the Lady’s Maid, Who all her Dress in Order Laid, Behind her Mistress simp’ring stood, And rais’d the youthful ’Squires Blood.
- He stopped, ran his eye over my dress, which, as usual, was quite simple: a black merino cloak, a black beaver bonnet; neither of them half fine enough for a lady’s-maid.
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