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
Last to fall was the parlormaid, who shielded herself with the jewel-packed pillow, ran screaming back & forth.
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
Shakespeare uses it and my parlormaid uses it, and an idiom which Shakespeare and my parlormaid use is good enough for me.
From Time Magazine Archive
He gave the note to the parlormaid the next morning in an inadvertent, casual manner just as he was leaving the house to catch his London train.
From Ann Veronica, a modern love story by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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