milkmaid
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of milkmaid
Example Sentences
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The site’s imagery—replete with barrel curls, pink cowboy boots and milkmaid dresses—sketches an ideal of a modern conservative woman: a churchgoing, city-dwelling young mother who is employed and upwardly mobile.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026
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.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 21, 2023
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.
From The Verge ● Apr. 22, 2022
It is not known who the woman was, but her dress and the butter churn, suggest she was a servant, possibly a milkmaid.
From BBC ● Nov. 18, 2021
She made two plaits on either side, milkmaid braids is what she calls them.
From "Sparrow" by Sarah Moon
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