parlormaid
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of parlormaid
Example Sentences
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Marsh played Rose Buck, the head parlormaid in the Bellamy home.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2025
Below stairs their butler, Bridges, is finding fault with the parlormaid, Mrs. Bridges.
From Time Magazine Archive
This year, the China Inland Mission, which once told the London parlormaid that she was unfit to be a missionary, bought her a round-trip ticket to England.
From Time Magazine Archive
When a Japanese artist bedded with a humble parlormaid in the early part of Queen Victoria's reign, the auspicious result was Japan's greatest politico-financier, His Excellency Korekiyo Takahashi.
From Time Magazine Archive
They had all gone to the Opera, the parlormaid told him.
From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton
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