bondmaid
Americannoun
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a female slave.
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a woman bound to service without wages.
noun
Etymology
Origin of bondmaid
Example Sentences
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Her heroine, pretty Chinese bondmaid Peony, is in the service of a wealthy Jewish family, the Ezras.
From Time Magazine Archive
Who am I That thou shouldst send my bondmaid gifts to take?
From The Story of Nefrekepta from a demotic papyrus by Gilbert Murray
The bondmaid will go ere she is driven out.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 12, October, 1858 by Various
Enow of gold there, where a very bondmaid bore it!
From The Story of the Volsungs, (Volsunga Saga) With Excerpts from the Poetic Edda by William Morris
But while resenting that the courtliness of his wife had been accused in the midnight gossip of guest, he found that her mother had been a bondmaid.
From The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo
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