bondmaid

American  

[bond-meyd] / ˈbɒndˌmeɪd /

noun

1. a female slave.

2. a woman bound to service without wages.

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bondmaid British  

/ ˈbɒndˌmeɪd /

noun

1. an unmarried female serf or slave

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Etymology

Origin of bondmaid

First recorded in 1520–30; bond ² + maid

Example Sentences

Her heroine, pretty Chinese bondmaid Peony, is in the service of a wealthy Jewish family, the Ezras.

From Time Magazine Archive

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a free woman.

From The first New Testament printed in English by

The love of a long life might well thrust aside the passion of a few months, and Sarah, contemned by her bondmaid, is more worthy of pity than Hagar, in my eyes.'

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 12, October, 1858 by Various

Then and there Hagar might well forget that she was Sarah's bondmaid, and only remember that she had been Abraham's wife—that she was still Ishmael's mother.

From Notable Women of Olden Time by Anonymous

GUERCINO'S Agar—where the bondmaid hears   From Abram's lips that he and she must part, And looks at him with eyes all full of tears   That seem the very last drops from her heart.

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael