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UK
/mˈeɪd/
]
[ US /ˈmeɪd/ ]
[ US /ˈmeɪd/ ]
NOUN
- an unmarried girl (especially a virgin)
- a female domestic
How To Use maid In A Sentence
- Commander Laurel D' ken smiled wryly as the blue haired officer said to Allison, ‘We'll need to nursemaid them a bit but I think they'd be able to manage well enough.’
- To play at Shuttlecock methinks is the game now," says a character in The Two Maids of More Clacke, written by Robert Armin in 1609. Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)
- The radiant bride was given away by her brother and attended by a ‘best woman’ rather than bridesmaids.
- The aristocracy are made to look like buffoons; the women swoon, the maids are oversexed, and the artist himself - the center of everyone's fawning attention - plays the dandy.
- She works days as a chambermaid at a local hotel and at night lies awake fearing the sound of his tread.
- Behold the mermaid blanket, a fishy update on that hygge groundbreaker, the slanket. Times, Sunday Times
- “No, there ain’t no Bowlong,” said the barmaid, taking up a glasscloth and a drying tumbler and beginning to polish the latter. The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll
- Virgo has been depicted as a winged maiden holding a palm branch in her left hand and an ear of corn in her right.
- How many times has something as fanciful as a unicorn, a yeti, a mermaid or a werewolf turned out to be based on fact?
- These feeling make you avoid generalizations and Russia is no more 'feudalistic' and USA is no more 'Paradise for handmaidens'. On Bushevicks, Bolsheviks and Scum: For The Record