parlormaid
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of parlormaid
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Marsh played Rose Buck, the head parlormaid in the Bellamy home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2025
A little, brown-eyed, onetime parlormaid was making Englishmen sit up & take notice last week.
From Time Magazine Archive
This year, the China Inland Mission, which once told the London parlormaid that she was unfit to be a missionary, bought her a round-trip ticket to England.
From Time Magazine Archive
Below stairs their butler, Bridges, is finding fault with the parlormaid, Mrs. Bridges.
From Time Magazine Archive
I had returned to town that evening, and next morning as I was sitting down in my study to answer some unimportant questions Maxwell Hartington had sent me, my parlormaid appeared.
From The Passionate Friends by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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