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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
barmaid
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As he was waiting for the barmaid to pour the drinks, Dexter could not resist temptation.
▪ As the audience are too preoccupied to buy any drinks, the barman and five barmaids dance on the bar throughout.
▪ Crilly gets a job raising curtains at a West End theatre and I become a barmaid at a busy Soho pub.
▪ He snapped his fingers at the barmaid and ordered a brandy.
▪ Helen, the barmaid, has left the apartment they share, and her departure is never explained.
▪ Same country accent: I tried practising it in my head, pretending I was a rosy-cheeked barmaid serving cider.
▪ The barmaid drew off two measures and passed them across the counter.
▪ The barmaid took the money wordlessly and Dexter swaggered over to the corner where Blanche was sitting.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Barmaid

Barmaid \Bar"maid`\, n. A girl or woman who attends the customers of a bar, as in a tavern or beershop.

A bouncing barmaid.
--W. Irving.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
barmaid

1650s, from bar (n.2) + maid.

Wiktionary
barmaid

n. A woman who works in a bar

WordNet
barmaid

n. a female bartender

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Usage examples of "barmaid".

House to house enquiries of landlords, barmaids and potmen made by police.

On flute now, the soloist sang, hummed and grunted as he blew, spurring himself along with intermittent shouts and hollers which raised the temperature of the playing to the point that one or two of the audience began drumming on their tabletops and the barmaid set aside her crossword puzzle in favour of polishing glasses.

Never mind that drunken song and laughter and the squealing shrieks of pinched barmaids would naturally defeat his best effort.

As soon as the ship docked in Caracas they went over the hill and lived off the proceeds of a barmaid, an Armenian refugee named Zenobia, sleeping with her on alternate nights, for two months.

Bred to patience - a barmaid since age thirteen - she had cultivated and perfected a vast cowlike calm which served her now in good stead among the drunkenness, sex for sale and general fatuousness of the bierhalle.

A barmaid in satin top and shorts, her visible skin showing a stitchwork of granular tumors, came over to the booth.

It was one of the things that had attracted him to Olga and, before that, to Tapper Sugg and the barmaid at the Cat and Carthorse just over the hill.

Louise thought, obscurely, that intolerance to noise did not go hand in hand with taking pleasure in the company of barmaids, for bars were not quiet places, and how did you get friendly with a barmaid unless you met her in her place of work?

Lesley herself had no record with the police, but a priggish, psychopathic murderer might have labelled her and all barmaids as sluts, if not prostitutes.

And now, years later, other bodies had been discovered, battered barmaids in towns where he had lived, and finally the one in Sheffield which, after tests, had been identified as Rene.

Suddenly, he wished he was back in Waterholm, sitting in a pub and flirting with barmaids, his only worry whether Rayner would be in a good mood today.

What he cannot work out is how the reputation of barmaids colours his reaction.

It is not a place which Mackintosh visits frequently: he dislikes pubs which have juke boxes and where there are no barmaids to admire.

Immediately, two barmaids appeared, eager to take his order and his money.

Three Boars, felt faint, and went into the bar for a glass of brandy, and so were able to see if both the barmaids were on duty?