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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Sent up the femme de chambre to ask them politely to take their boots off.
From Fordham's Feud by Bertram Mitford
“Ah, me!” cried the femme de chambre, with a hypocritical whine, “my poor mistress!—who then is to help her?”
From Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora by Mayne Reid
It was on one of these evenings that Pauline sought the silence of her private apartment ere she gave herself up to her femme de chambre.
From Graham's Magazine Vol. XXXII No. 2. February 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad
At this moment a door from another room opened, and, rattling a big bunch of keys, a pretty, bright femme de chambre came in.
From A Flight with the Swallows Little Dorothy's Dream by Emma Marshall
My lady, in high spirits, was superintending, with gusto, her own toilet, as it progressed under the skillful hand of her femme de chambre.
From Faithful Margaret A Novel by Annie Ashmore
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