dairymaid

[dair-ee-meyd]

noun

a girl or woman employed in a dairy.

Origin of dairymaid

First recorded in 1590–1600; dairy + maid

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Examples from the Web for dairymaid

Historical Examples of dairymaid

Her people had been well-to-do yeomen for centuries, but she was only a dairymaid.'
A Pair of Blue Eyes
Thomas Hardy
T is milking time, sir; and you shall know that I am our dairymaid.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866
Various
But with the countess as with the dairymaid, it must depend on the woman herself.
Framley Parsonage
Anthony Trollope
But Ragnhild and the dairymaid both lent a hand; all youth and energy they were.
Wanderers
Knut Hamsun
Why, you look exactly as if you were dressing up to do the part of a dairymaid.
Girls New and Old
L. T. Meade

British Dictionary definitions for dairymaid

dairymaid

noun

(esp formerly) a girl or woman who works in a dairy, esp one who milks cows and makes butter and cheese on a farm

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