fille de chambren.
/fiː də ˈʃɒmbrə/ A chambermaid; a lady's personal maid.
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society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [noun] > lady's maid
chamberlaina1400
waiting-maid1561
chambermaid1569
lady's maid1577
tire-woman1615
abigail1616
fille de chambre1673
suivante1674
comb-brush1702
tiring-woman1732
femme de chambre1741
lady's woman1748
personal maid1748
comb-brusher1751
ayah1782
wardrobe maid1797
soubrette1824
camerist1838
tire-maid1871
1673 Gentlewomans Compan. 79 Their Filles de Chambre..attending their Beauties.
1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey I. 141 Madame de L***..rung up her fille de chambre to ask about it.
1809 Q. Rev. 2 182 One class of readers may perhaps be amused by the agaçeries of the filles de chambre.
a1846 B. R. Haydon Autobiogr. (1927) III. xiii. 231 The fille de chambre, Rose Armande, was a very interesting girl.
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