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A female bound to serve without wages
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bondmaid
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Word definitions for bondmaid in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bondmaid \Bond"maid`\, n. [Bond, a. or n. + maid.] A female slave, or one bound to service without wages, as distinguished from a hired servant.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a female bound to serve without wages [syn: bondwoman , bondswoman ] a female slave [syn: bondwoman , bondswoman ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A female bondservant.
Usage examples of bondmaid.
The lodgings were taken furnished, and a bondmaid of the house did such work as was indispensable.
I have told you why I cannot take wife, concubine, or bondmaid with me.
Vidar I was just a bondmaid and if he had dignity he would make me eat in the stables.
Every maiden was made bondmaid to some wild man, while for those who were women, it was like a Falconer visit that lasted forever.
Allow me, your faithful bondmaid, to visit those same councilors and have myself made new in your image.
Bondmen and bondmaids, as property, without limitation of time, and transmissible as inheritance to children, might be bought of surrounding nations.
This practice, of course, encourages bondmaids to vie vigorously to please their masters.
I heard the movements of chain, the moans of the bondmaids in the arms of their masters, men of-Torvaldsland.
The song dealt with the problems of a man attempting to content one hundred bond-maids, one after the other, it is rather repetitious, and the number of bondmaids decreases by one in each round.
No longer would she, in her free woman's scorn, shower contempt on bondmaids, trying to make them ashamed of their beauty.