femme de chambre
Britishnoun
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a chambermaid
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rare a personal maid
Etymology
Origin of femme de chambre
C18: woman of the bedroom
Example Sentences
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Through Rouen when our friends had been, Next up the staircase see them go, And all its famous places seen, With femme de chambre the way to show.
From Abroad by Crane, Thomas
The male domestic or the femme de chambre received him with all the deference that "domestics" show when they suspect that the visitor brings any kind of subsidy to the house.
From His Excellency the Minister by Roberts, Henri
Fanchette and the femme de chambre, two brave devoted women such as provincial France alone still possesses, but such as the future scarcely holds in store for us, lavished their care upon their dear mistress.
From Her Royal Highness Woman by O'Rell, Max
Consigning my friend for a short time to these, I followed the femme de chambre, who had already brought in my card to my mother, to her ladyship's dressing-room.
From Jack Hinton The Guardsman by Lever, Charles James
Miss Linton has at length succeeded in dragging herself out of the embrace of the somnolent divinity, and enters the breakfast-room, supported by her French femme de chambre.
From Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye by Reid, Mayne
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