dairymaid
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of dairymaid
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Perhaps most famously, Edward Jenner in 1796 inoculated a healthy 8-year-old boy with cowpox derived from a lesion on the hand of a dairymaid.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2021
What could be more picturesque than a duchess impersonating a dairymaid in straw hat and copious ribbons?
From The Guardian ● Jul. 29, 2011
Ellen was a dairymaid employed by the Rathmore Creamery in County Kerry.
From Time Magazine Archive
Although production methods have become more sanitary, the vaccine itself has changed little since Edward Jenner scraped it from sores on the hand of a cowpox-infected dairymaid.
From Time Magazine Archive
In those days they were all milked by hand, and I loved to watch the dairymaid squirt the white milk into her pail while the cow placidly chewed its cud.
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a wordDefinitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
