| 单词 | house girl |
| 释义 | > as lemmashouse girl house girl n. (in early use) a female slave who works in a house (now historical); (later) any young female domestic servant or employee, esp. in some former British dependencies. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > [noun] > slave > female theowa900 ambohtc1175 thrallessa1382 bondwoman1387 serve1480 bondmaid1526 naif1531 maid slave1585 slave-girl1607 slave woman1607 woman bond1675 house girl1791 thrall-woman1886 bondswoman- society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > domestic servant > [noun] > female house girl1854 1791 Abstr. of Evid. Select Comm.: Petitioners for Abol. Slave-trade (House of Commons) 69 One of the house-girls having broken a plate, or spilt a cup of tea, the doctor..nailed her ear to a post. 1835 M. Morrison Let. 5 Nov. in N. E. Eliason Tarheel Talk (1956) 277 We have been intending for some time to buy a house girl. 1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters ii. 23 I..ran shrieking to my mother,..and the house-girl, whom she next sent to shut the door,..also returned frightened. 1945 B. A. Botkin Lay My Burden Down 55 Part white children sold for more than black children. They used them for house girls. 1996 N. Maraire Zenzele ix. 134 She was wearing the unmistakable starched pink uniform of a house girl and pulling a chubby, chattering white toddler by the hand. 2008 R. Ekosso House of Falling Women 81 The housegirl, a distant cousin sent from the village a year ago, came in from the back room that had been tagged on to the kitchen for poor relatives. 2010 Citizen (Dar es Salaam) (Nexis) 20 Nov. Everyone and their housegirl and askari have a mobile phone. < as lemmas |
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