NOUN
- a maid in a private home whose duties are to care for the parlor and the table and to answer the door
How To Use parlormaid In A Sentence
- In Rye, he had employed Fanny the parlormaid, pretty and quiet and careful, and in Rye, too, he had found a treasure called Burgess Noakes, gnome-sized and not pretty, but making up for it in punctuality and the desire to please. The Master
- This boy, said Nancy, was the result of an affair with his parlormaid. The House at Riverton
- Henry sent Mrs. Ticknor to the kitchen, and, having briefed the doctor, dispatched him in the care of the parlormaid to the room behind the pantry where, he understood from Burgess Noakes, Mr. Smith lay. The Master
- He explained to the company that the butler was not well and hoped they would not be offended by the parlormaid serving luncheon with the assistance of young Burgess Noakes. The Master
- Luncheon would be served by the parlormaid with assistance from Burgess Noakes, who should be found a jacket which fitted him. The Master
- So what if Sweeney buys drinks for Rachel Rabinowitz or Aunt Helen's footman dandles the second parlormaid?
- “By rights,” Woolf wrote, Lottie — the parlormaid — “should have a whole chapter to herself.” Imperfect Union
- As they moved into the hallway, they saw the parlormaid let the doctor into the house. The Master
- If I had remained in your household long enough to reach the exalted station of parlormaid I would know the answer, but-"" Milk, please. LORD OF THE SILENT