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  • noun Plural form of maidservant.

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Examples

  • She ran into the house, calling her maidservants, Katya, Sasha, come quick!

    Girls to the Rescue book #2 Bruce Lansky 1995

  • She ran into the house, calling her maidservants, Katya, Sasha, come quick!

    Girls to the Rescue book #2 Bruce Lansky 1995

  • And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.

    CORONATION DAY 2010

  • "You shall not covet your neighbor's house, or his wife, or his land, or his manservant or his maidservants, his ox or donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor."

    Borger: Jenny Sanford becomes the new political paradigm 2009

  • The Japanese maidservants are pretty and merry, but you never know the moment they'll leave you.

    CHAPTER II 2010

  • We're not quite sure how this novel made it onto our shelves; it won the Whitbread Prize in 1999 and is set largely in the royal court of Denmark in 1629 and 1630, where a young English musician falls in love with one of the king's estranged wife's maidservants.

    April Books 5) Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, by J.K. Rowling nwhyte 2009

  • A farm hand dumped the wet tanning bark with a spade on to the boards and the maidservants would jump up and down, stomping it with their feet.

    Rachel Cusk | Portraits 2011

  • I was also startled by the brutal violence with which Odysseus and Telemachus dispose of Penelope's suitors and the maidservants.

    February Books 22) Short Trips: Repercussions, edited by Gary Russell nwhyte 2009

  • In the autumn the young maidservants, their aprons tied up, would stand with naked calves and feet on a high scaffold laid out with boards.

    Rachel Cusk | Portraits 2011

  • TANAGER OF CARAPACE command these maidservants to fulfill duties of the kushti rites we sell fish cassava kola nuts by the roadside give birth to children of soldierrapists in the forests solace solely in dining on old velvet pullets so: we find some aardvarks

    The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010

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