| 单词 | general servant |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgeneral servant general servant n. a servant whose duties are general rather than limited to a particular sphere; spec. = maid-of-all-work n. (a) at maid n.1 3b. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > domestic servant > [noun] > maid or housemaid > maid-of-all-work general servant1725 servant of all work1754 maid-of-all-work1801 slavey1821 universal maid1840 marchioness1883 skivvy1902 1725 A. Moreton Mod. Gentility No Christianity 30 Without being a profess'd Needle-Woman, which I think is not to be expected from one that professes to be a general Servant. 1815 Criminal Recorder II. 431 Catherine Prendergast, one of the prisoners, and daughter to Patrick, another of them, was his housekeeper and general servant. 1879 St. George's Hosp. Rep. 9 21 Nine females..were admitted for anæmia. Six were housemaids or general servants. 1923 Harvard Law Rev. 36 1028 The general servant of one may become temporarily the servant of another. 2003 J. Flanders Victorian House (2004) iv. 102 The single servant had to try to encompass all the heavy work: the maid-of-all-work, or ‘general servant’ (considered to be a more genteel term), had..the most tiring, difficult job of all servants. < as lemmas |
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