1578 G. Whetstone iv. vi. sig. Eiv Other market maydes pay downe for their meate, But that I haue bought, on my score is set.
a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iii. vi. 51 But you are come A Market-maid to Rome. View more context for this quotation
1860 Nov. 241/2 To sit still waiting and waiting for customers, like a market maid with her butter.