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A maid in a private home whose duties are to care for the parlor and the table and to answer the door
Answer for the clue "A maid in a private home whose duties are to care for the parlor and the table and to answer the door ", 11 letters:
parlourmaid
Word definitions for parlourmaid in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context British English) A maid who takes care of the parlour.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a maid in a private home whose duties are to care for the parlor and the table and to answer the door [syn: parlormaid ]
Usage examples of parlourmaid.
He selected Millbourne because he had been butler at the Hall there, and because his sister Jane, who had been a parlourmaid at the Rectory, was now married and living in the village.
His sister, who before her marriage had been parlourmaid at Nettleton New House, had told him about some of the things they regarded as ornamental-- negresses without a stitch to their name, holding candles.