| 单词 | to place out at service |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto place out at service (c) out at service: living away from one's regular residence as a domestic servant. Frequently in to place out at service. Now chiefly historical. ΚΠ a1701 A. Bonifield Treacherous taken in Treachery 32 The Daughter being abroad, or out at Service, and her Master and Mistress intending for her discharge and turning home, she did thereupon fall a Crying. 1740 Rep. Gen. Comm. (Foundling Hospital) i. 9 As soon as they attain proper Ages, the Boys shall be put out to Husbandry..; and the Girls be..placed out at Service. 1825 Christian Gleaner Feb. 37 Some young women who have been out at service as long as she had, and taken higher wages, have got neither money nor clothes. 1873 Irish Times & Daily Advertiser 20 Feb. 6/3 Two orphans were adopted.., 15 were placed out at service, and were giving the greatest satisfaction in their respective situations. 1989 P. C. Holloran Boston's Wayward Children ii. 71 Because the annual reports of St. Vincent's Asylum are missing or not consistent, it is not possible to determine exactly how many girls were adopted or placed out at service. < as lemmas |
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