Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A girl or woman who milks cows.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A woman who milks cows or is employed in a dairy.
Wiktionary
- n. A girl or young woman who milked the cows on a farm before milking machines were introduced in the 20th century.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A woman who milks cows or is employed in the dairy.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a woman who works in a dairy
Examples
“For the occasion, she wore a colorful blouse and shorts, with her hair in milkmaid braids.”
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“Dressed in milkmaid outfits, they leap and tumble, twirl and bow, making evident Elkins 'and their own geeky admiration for the film.”
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“So Blamire can scarcely be described as a milkmaid!”
“I always have braids in my hair - small "milkmaid" braids.”
“-- the "milkmaid," -- which would remove the term from the list of names for "child" in the proper sense of the word.”
“Just try dressing your spouse up as something dorky, like a cow, so you can be something sexy, like a blonde milkmaid.”
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“This primitivist terrain has been with us at least since the eighteenth century when Bougainville published illustrations of those charming and elegant Tahitians, Rousseau found man good in his native state, and Marie Antoinette played milkmaid at Versailles.”
“All the crazy claims, the constant Soviet talk about how a milkmaid had milked a millions tons.”
“In 1796, Jenner enlisted a milkmaid named Sarah Nelmes and an eight-year-old boy named James Phipps to test his theory.”
“Marion is a milkmaid whose sister was murdered the previous year by a passing Viking.”
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milk phrases/words
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Archaic Occupations
Some of these professions still exist today but the word for them has changed; some (mason or boatswain, for example), are still in use but are included for their rich historical associations. Som...
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