| 单词 | foot maid |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfoot maid foot maid n. rare in later use a female attendant or foot servant; cf. foot maiden n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [noun] > female thuftena1100 handmaidc1300 damselc1330 maid womanc1330 handmaidenc1350 handwomana1382 foot maid?a1475 foot maidenc1480 waiting-woman1565 waitressc1595 waiter1639 attendressa1661 ?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 64 Sche xal be here foot mayd to mynyster here most mylde. a1500 Disciplina Clericalis in Western Reserve Univ. Bull. (1919) 22 69 (MED) Bi hir footemayde or seruaunt, with yiftes corrupt, she was disceived. 1853 Anglo-Amer. Mag. Feb. 220/2 I sent Mary, our foot-maid, to take care of him and two of his friends who called. 2013 L. Adlington Great War Fashion v. 66 Lady Randolph Churchill hit on the novel idea of transforming two maids into ‘footmaids’ once her footmen were at the front, dressing these women in swallow-tail coats and evening waistcoats. < as lemmas |
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