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Title servant in a 1946 Paulette Goddard film
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chambermaid
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, from chamber + maid .\n
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Did you not agree she should be my chambermaid ? ▪ In the mornings the chambermaid will roll it up leaving the floor space free. ▪ More than once a hot-water bottle filled with cider burst in the back of a closet, for a chambermaid ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a maid who is employed to clean and care for bedrooms (now primarily in hotels) [syn: fille de chambre ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chambermaid \Cham"ber*maid`\, n. A maidservant who has the care of chambers, making the beds, sweeping, cleaning the rooms, etc. A lady's maid. [Obs.] --Johnson. [1913 Webster] ||
Usage examples of chambermaid.
I know men ask chambermaids questions of that kind, and they all give answers like your sweetheart, who perhaps wanted to make you curious about herself.
It was one of the chambermaids-, little more than fourteen years old, she had a Carinthian accent so strong that Winter had her repeat her message three times before he was sure he had it right.
She, the witness, was a chambermaid in the hotel where Filmer had plotted.
Happy had it been for Nanny the chambermaid, if she had seen with the eyes of her mistress, for that poor girl fell so violently in love with Jones in five minutes, that her passion afterwards cost her many a sigh.
A chambermaid at the Clarendon Hotel had convinced her that short locks were all the rage, and of course, Lexia agreed to the shearing with alacrity.
As dry and hard as the chambermaid in the hotel had been, she looked him over with peasantlike mistrust, without coming to the door.
I face to face with the most natural little natural fact, and withal the most charming and merry-eyed, that-- well, in short, as I came to enter my room I was confronted by the roundest, ruddiest little chambermaid ever created for the trial of mortal frailty.
Fondling and kissing and whispering and chuckling under the covers, the two young girls sharing secrets and dreams and wants, pretending to be grown-up lovers--as described in the romantic but forbidden street pamphlets that were smuggled in by the chambermaids and circulated from hand to hand amongst the students--all make-believe and healthy and amusing and harmless.
Before him stood a battalion of chambermaids in crisp monochrome, their caps of fluted white linen seated upon their coiffures like matching baby doves.
The two chambermaids being again left alone, began a second bout at altercation, which soon produced a combat of a more active kind.
A group of chambermaids and kitchen helpers, permanent staff, sat on the fire escape.
He no longer had to go round to the back of the hotel to sit with the kitchen help and chambermaids for companionship.
He interviewed various hotel servants--waiters, chambermaids, porters, all could tell him something, and the sum total of what they could tell amounted, for all practical purposes, to next to nothing.
Numerous peasant girls, born into ignorance and poverty, were offered positions as chambermaids and scullery servants in the comparative grandeur of the castle.
In order to this, she had provided herself with a long and deadly instrument, with which, in times of peace, the chambermaid was wont to demolish the labours of the industrious spider.