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milkmaid

[milk-meyd]

noun

  1. a woman who milks cows or is employed in a dairy; dairymaid.



milkmaid

/ ˈmɪlkˌmeɪd /

noun

  1. a girl or woman who milks cows

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of milkmaid1

First recorded in 1545–55; milk + maid
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Example Sentences

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The en masse blossom will include golden poppies — the California state flower — as well as desert dandelions, lupins, whispering bells and milkmaids.

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Webster imagines her ancestor’s work as a milkmaid, the trial and her ultimate indenture on a plantation in Maryland where Molly met Bana’ka, the enslaved man who became the father of her children.

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She’s a brainy brunette wallflower, a fraying nerve barely held together by tightly plaited milkmaid braids.

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But Delft tiles were also meant to be fanciful, and the cartoonish, sometimes irreverent painted embellishments on even the earliest ones — featuring milkmaids, windmills and begging dogs — became as recognizable as the blue-and-white glaze.

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The controls are fiddly, the platforming can get very confusing, and the game churns like an arthritic milkmaid whenever there’s more than two moving things on the screen.

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