milkmaid
a woman who milks cows or is employed in a dairy; dairymaid.
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How to use milkmaid in a sentence
She was no longer the milkmaid, but a visionary essence of woman—a whole sex condensed into one typical form.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles | Thomas HardyHow could Lady Castlewood peep through a keyhole, listen at a door, and be jealous of a boy and a milkmaid!
De Libris: Prose and Verse | Austin DobsonVenator is seated with his arm round the waist of the pretty milkmaid.
Rowlandson the Caricaturist. Second Volume | Joseph GregoI never was cut out for even a milkmaid, myself, added Heavy.
Ruth Fielding at Silver Ranch | Alice B. EmersonThe farmer's daughter, who was a milkmaid, used to tend the gold-horned cow.
The Pot of Gold | Mary E. Wilkins
British Dictionary definitions for milkmaid
/ (ˈmɪlkˌmeɪd) /
a girl or woman who milks cows
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