Crossword clues for milkmaid
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Milkmaid \Milk"maid`\, n. A woman who milks cows or is employed in the dairy.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A girl or young woman who milked the cows on a farm before milking machines were introduced in the 20th century.
WordNet
n. a woman who works in a dairy [syn: dairymaid]
Wikipedia
A milkmaid (or milk maid) is a girl or woman employed to milk dairy cows. She also used the milk to prepare dairy products such as cream, butter, and cheese. Many large houses employed milkmaids instead of having other staff do the work. The term milkmaid is not the female equivalent of milkman in the sense of one who delivers milk to the consumer; it is the female equivalent of milkman in the sense of cowman.
Historically, a milkmaid was a woman who milked cows and supplied milk.
Milkmaid may also refer to:
- Milkmaid (horse), a racehorse
- The Milkmaid (Vermeer), a painting by Johannes Vermeer
- The Milkmaid of Bordeaux, a painting by Francisco Goya
- Burchardia umbellata, an herb of native woodlands and heath from southern Australia
- Cardamine californica, a flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae, native to California
Milkmaid (foaled 1916 in Kentucky) was an American two-time Champion Thoroughbred racehorse. She was bred by J. Hal Woodford at his farm in Bourbon County, Kentucky. Woodford had bred and raced the 1907 Kentucky Derby winner, Pink Star. Out of the mare, Nell Olin, her sire was the British import, Peep o' Day, a son of the great Ayrshire who won the 1888 2,000 Guineas Stakes and Epsom Derby then just missed winning the British Triple Crown when he ran second in the St. Leger Stakes.
Purchased at age two in 1918 by owner/trainer John E. Madden, after winning the September 18th Hopeful Purse at Havre de Grace Racetrack he sold Milkmaid to Canadian, J.K.L. Ross. Her race conditioning was then turned over to future U.S. Racing Hall of Fame trainer, Guy Bedwell.
Usage examples of "milkmaid".
Instead of carrying pails as was their wont, these milkmaids, who were all very neatly attired, bore on their heads a pile of silver plate, borrowed for the occasion, arranged like a pyramid, and adorned with ribands and flowers.
Moore, to abandon the Scottish stanza and dialect, and adopt the measure and language of modern English poetry, better inspired than the strains of the milkmaid, for such was Jenny Little.
It was plain to every milkmaid and street sweeper in the rue Royale that this British officer was glad to be alive, delighted to be in Belgium, and that he expected every one in Brussels to share his evident enjoyment of life, health and happiness.
A hush followed, the atmosphere being so stagnant that the milk could be heard buzzing into the pails, together with occasional words of the milkmaids and men.
All the workers, from the sweeps to the stableboys to the milkmaids to the cheese-makers and so on, sat and feasted together, clinking their brass cups in toasts, tossing bones to the dogs, laughing and jesting in good fellowship.
Blue television light flickered over shelves of shadowy ceramic figurines: Dresden milkmaids, Chantilly Chinamen, Meissen pug-dogs connected by a gold chain held in their champed jaws, naked Delft nymphs dancing.
Sue had noticed that in the living room there were a lot of framed sketches round the walls of men and women in costumes: Cavaliers, Battle of Britain pilots, milkmaids, Victorian nurses, all signed L.
On the mantel there was a cluster of statuettes: angels, milkmaids, and coy-looking kids with the toes of their shoes turned in.
The Marquis of Edenderry: its terraces of brothelly red velvet and tinkling chandeliers, the barman in braces, striped shirts and porkchop side burns, the barmaids with their milkmaid outfits, wenchy cleavages and sound knowledge of darts averages and lore.
Certainly not among the Uzbeks or Buryats, nor among the women who tended cement mixers like so many milkmaids around a cow.
Was this to be another round in the match between the milkmaid and the city slicker?
The weather was brisk, and each morning Jane Fithians cheeks were a bright English red, and she would apologize, Im sure I must look a perfect milkmaid.
Then it was the Fool's turn, and he humored us with a ribald folk song about courting a milkmaid.
Little Grumbeletta appears to Prince Wolfgang in a dream, accompanied by the spirits of angry shepherdesses who suffer severe lower back pain from attempting to do the dance of the disoriented milkmaids without proper training.
Without throwing a Nymphean tissue over a milkmaid, let it be said that here criticism checked itself as out of place, and looked at her proportions with a long consciousness of pleasure.