femme de chambre

British  

/ fam də ʃɑ̃brə /

noun

1. a chambermaid

2. rare a personal maid

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Etymology

Origin of femme de chambre

C18: woman of the bedroom

Example Sentences

Pressed by my family," the femme de chambre relates, "who could not conceive that, in the position in which I was, it could be difficult for me to procure a trifling commission for a good soldier, I asked it directly from the minister himself.

From Project Gutenberg

It was a long expedition to visit the march� aux fleurs on the distant quay near Notre Dame; and though its beauty and its fragrance might well repay an hour or two stolen from the pillow, the sweet decorations it offered to the boudoir must have been oftener selected by the ma�tre d'h�tel or the femme de chambre than by the fair lady herself.

From Project Gutenberg

I suppose it reflects upon the femme de chambre when the mistress is not up to the mark.

From Project Gutenberg

I had no idea that gossip about me and my affairs was a dining-room amusement among the maids and valets of the hotel guests: that all Lady Allendale's femme de chambre need do was to ask "What's the name of the girl Lord John Hasle's in love with?" in order to have my heart bared to her eyes.

From Project Gutenberg

Madame Hubert being young and pretty was most anxious to adopt that fashion—thought it would be more suitable for Madame as all the suivantes here wore the veil—she would be less remarked going about with Madame—but Madame decidedly preferred the plain little black bonnet of the Parisian femme de chambre.

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