A maid in a private home whose duties are to care for the parlor and the table and to answer the door

Usage examples of parlormaid.

Martin is the parlormaid or waitress, as they like to call themselves nowadays.

The butler looks to me a bit of a rascal, and that parlormaid is definitely subnormal.

A man-of-all-work, a gardener, a parlormaid, three house maids, the cook Mrs.

She had thought it a fine thing to be accepted as a parlormaid, a great honor for a farmgirl whose family could barely support three daughters when the harvest had failed for two years running, and she had gone eagerly to her new post.

Switching to a different angle she saw a parlormaid entering the room.

Brinkley appeared to direct the parlormaid and footman in serving the first course.

Jill was talking to the parlormaid whose head had popped up over the banisters flanking the stairs that led to the kitchen.

Boards announcing that the house was for sale appeared against the railings through which Jane the parlormaid conducted her daily conversations with the tradesmen.

One of the attendants, who had timidly advanced towards him waving a pleated kilt like a parlormaid shaking a rug, jumped back with a squeak.

Darkwell jerked on the bell rope a second time, and almost immediately a breathless parlormaid trotted into the library.

Devon had never taken his eyes from the door since the pretty, pale-cheeked parlormaid had glided through it.

Emma, his wife, had been a kitchen maid before she married, their daughter, Annie, was a parlormaid, and Arthur, though he always had his sights set higher, used to help George in the summers for pocket money.

And Micky and Edward had assured him that they were not prostitutes but ordinary girls, shop assistants and parlormaids and dressmakers.

She strayed into the music room one warm October afternoon to find one of the little parlormaids dusting the ivory keys with a feather duster.

The mob-capped heads of two of the parlormaids emerged through the banisters on the second-floor balcony.