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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dairymaid
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All the dairy people watched them leave, and Clare kissed the dairymaids goodbye.
▪ But soon it was clear that the dairyman did not want so many dairymaids at this time of year.
▪ He learnt from Izz that, of the other dairymaids, Retty had become ill, and Marian had started drinking.
▪ She would simply be the dairymaid Tess, and nothing more.
▪ Tess discovered that only two or three of the dairymaids slept in the house, besides herself.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dairymaid

Dairymaid \Dai"ry*maid`\, n. A female servant whose business is the care of the dairy.

Wiktionary
dairymaid

n. A woman who works in a dairy.

WordNet
dairymaid

n. a woman who works in a dairy [syn: milkmaid]

Usage examples of "dairymaid".

Hathersage interposed himself between that gentleman and the dairymaids, for which I liked him the better, for I was sure he relished Botts no more than I did myself.

They had a fat flock of sheep and fine cows for milk, their seter was large and well covered with living sod and surrounded by sturdy outbuildings, and in addition to their bond servants, they could afford a shepherd in winter, two hired men to tend the fields and mend the walls, and a dairymaid.

I remarked little Joan, who was lovesick for Mounseer, and another, older dairymaid standing further back in the group.

Fitzpatrick and the three ill-assorted maids and the four dairymaids and the stablemen were lined up to greet her.

One of them involved several flights of back stairs through the Polygon, a secret panel beside the fireplace in the Junior Parlor (which everyone in the Citadel knew about except the dairymaids and Silvorglim), and thence across the bridge to the lowest floor of the Harlot.

The sixth baby, whose father was a gipsy tramp, would have shared the same fate, had it not so happened that one of the maiden ladies came into the farmyard to scold the dairymaids for sending up cream that smelt of the cow.

Mago, go find us that brace of pretty little dairymaids I met this morning and ask them if they'd like to see our chamber.