maid
noun
a female domestic employee who cleans tourist accommodations or does cleaning or other housework in a home.
maidish
-
a word derived from
maid.
Example Sentences
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A spinster, there is nothing old maidish about her comfortable appearance; only her keen blue eyes belie her look of somewhat stolid placidity.
From Time Magazine Archive
While Lindy—well, in her black sewin' dress and white apron, she looks slimmer and more old maidish than ever.
From Shorty McCabe on the Job by Sewell Ford
Fourthly, Madame Aubrey, a widow, a sort of second cousin, old maidish, talky— Man.
From The Romance of a Poor Young Man A Drama Adapted from the French of Octave Feuillet by Pierrepont Edwards
Had she known it, she too was looking her best tonight—in an old- maidish fashion, be it understood.
From The Westcotes by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
She lost all consciousness that he was a strange man plunged down suddenly in the midst of her old maidish existence—and a strange man, too, who had once behaved in a most outrageous fashion.
From The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol by Alec Ball
