| 单词 | domestic slave | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasdomestic slave   domestic slave  n. 		 (a) a household slave, esp. as distinguished from a predial slave (see predial adj. 4);		 (b) = odalisque n. and adj.;		 (c) (see quot. 1799). ΚΠ 1776    E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. ii. 40  				In the free states of antiquity, the domestic slaves were exposed to the wanton rigour of despotism. 1798    Lady's Mag. June 265/1  				No woman of Turkish birth can be an odalik, or domestic slave. 1799    M. Park Trav. Afr. 		(ed. 2)	 xxii. 287  				The domestic slaves, or such as are born in a man's own house, are treated with more lenity than those which are purchased with money. 1970    Encycl. Brit. XX. 635/2  				Manumission was..frequently granted for long and devoted services of a domestic slave, in particular to nurses who had looked after the master's children. < as lemmas | 
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