| 单词 | servant-maid |
| 释义 | > as lemmasservant-maid a. A female servant or attendant; a maidservant; often with defining word prefixed as bar-maid, chamber-maid, farm-maid, house-maid, nurse-maid, servant-maid, etc.; lady's maid (see lady's maid n.). Cf. maiden n. 3. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > [noun] > woman or girl maidenOE schelchenec1000 womanOE maidc1300 ancillec1366 wench1380 child-womana1382 maidservanta1382 serving-womana1398 servantessa1425 servant maid?a1450 woman servant1450 servitrice1477 administress1483 ministressa1500 serving maid?1529 maiden-servant1533 servitrix1566 miskin-fro1585 servant girl1658 girl1668 necessary womanc1689 scout1708 servitress1827 ancilla1871 c1300 St. Mary Magdalen (Laud) 492 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 476 Heo haueȝ i-beon min hou[s]wif, mi mayde, and mi norice. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) i. 2573 Sche..goth to chambre and hath compleigned Unto a Maide which sche triste. 1461 in F. B. Bickley Little Red Bk. Bristol (1900) II. 127 No person..sett..his seid wyfe, daughter, or maide to no suche occupacion of weuyng. a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 59/1 Yt it was not princely to mary hys owne subiect,..onely as it were a rich man that would mary his mayde. 1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (rev. ed.) f. 6 Thy nychtbouris wyfe..Thow couet not, to the..his oxe, his maide nor page. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1658 (1955) III. 208 He [sc. a child] would..select the most pathetical Psalmes,..to reade to his Mayde, during his sicknesse. 1698 H. Wanley in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) 258 The maid told me that Dr. Smith had been there since I went. 1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho II. xii. 466 You must dismiss your maid, lady. 1835 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 491 We kept no maid:—and I had much to do. 1860 Queen Victoria Jrnl. (1868) 138 The two maids had driven over by another road in the waggonette. 1880 ‘Ouida’ Moths I. 39 My maid must run up something for you to wear by to-morrow. 1927 Travel Nov. 48/1 (advt.) Steward, maid, waiters, porters and barber, attending your needs. 1960 S. Unwin Truth about Publisher i. i. 20 To wait on ourselves at supper..to give the maids a Sunday evening's rest. 1991 San Francisco Chron. 26 July b5/4 She not only left her husband..but she left her cook, and her chauffeur and her maid. < as lemmas |
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