| 单词 | waiting-lady |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswaiting-lady 1. That waits upon, or attends to, another; that acts as an attendant, or waiter. Often hyphenated with the qualified noun as in waiting-gentlewoman, waiting-lady, waiting-maid n., waiting-man n., waiting-woman n., etc. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [adjective] > attending upon a person tendanta1387 attendant1393 waiting1538 attending1598 1538 in J. W. Clay North Country Wills (1908) I. 159 To every one of my wayting servauntes vj s. viij d. the pece. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III ii. i. 122 When your carters, or your waighting vassailes Haue done a drunken slaughter. 1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie iii. x. sig. H.viiiv If one should sew For Lesbias loue, hauing two daies to woe..& should imploy those twaine The favour of her wayting-wench to gaine, Were he not mad? 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. ii. 12 I thinke I told your lordship..how much I am in the fauour of Margaret, the waiting gentlewoman to Hero. View more context for this quotation 1620 tr. G. Boccaccio Decameron I. ii. vi. 47 This Gentleman..one especiall day.., with his wife, seruants, and waiting hounds [It. merely con suoi cani], wandred vp into the Iland. 1713 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1898) IV. 76 Her little waiting Dogg was got under her Clothes. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones IV. x. ix. 78 Certain pecuniary Civilities, which are by Custom due to the Waiting-gentlewoman in all Love Affairs. View more context for this quotation 1829 W. Scott Anne of Geierstein II. ix. 296 That dressing my mistress is the only part of a waiting-lady's life that I have the least fancy for. 1861 G. Meredith Patriot Engin. in Poems 35 Why, there's the ale-house bench:..And there's my waiting-wench, As lissome as a hound. 1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad I. v. 268 It would, after all, have perhaps been more difficult to find waiting-boys who could speak English. < as lemmas |
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