lady's maid

American  

noun

1. a maid who is a woman's personal attendant, as in dressing.

---

lady's maid British  

noun

1. a personal servant to a woman, esp in matters of dress and toilet

---

Etymology

Origin of lady's maid

First recorded in 1800–10

Example Sentences

His father, Ernest, worked as a milkman while his mother, Ethel, had been a lady's maid before her marriage.

From BBC • Aug. 10, 2022

"It's cyclical," explains star Raquel Cassidy, who plays a lady's maid in the franchise.

From Salon • Jun. 28, 2022

Herbert George Wells was born in 1866 to an unsuccessful shopkeeper and a former lady’s maid.

From Washington Post • Nov. 2, 2021

Anna is Mary’s lady’s maid, Bates is Robert’s valet, and together they are a LOT.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 10, 2019

As she walked, the young lady’s maid passed the site where the Declaration of Independence had been written and adopted twenty years earlier.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis