milkmaid

American  

[milk-meyd] / ˈmɪlkˌmeɪd /

noun

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

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milkmaid British  

/ ˈmɪlkˌmeɪd /

noun

1. a girl or woman who milks cows

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Etymology

Origin of milkmaid

First recorded in 1545–55; milk + maid

Example Sentences

In a typical scene, Miss Holland, played by Van der Velden with milkmaid braids and hairy armpits, chokes on the aerosol of a spray tan.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

From New York Times

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

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

From New York Times

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.

From New York Times