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- noun Plural form of
barmaid .
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Examples
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Muss-Arnolt in his Assyrian Dictionary, 746b, has also recognized that _sabitum_ was originally an epithet and compares the Aramaic _se_bhoyâthâ (p1) "barmaids".
An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic Anonymous 1891
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Scantily, if tastefully, clad barmaids served an attractive, diverse mix of patrons—professional men in jeans and pressed shirts at the bar, pairs of European tourists at nearby tables.
Come to the Cabaret Charles Runnette 2012
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The barmaids talk about him fondly, like a favourite uncle.
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Rows and rows of costumes encased in dry-cleaning bags hung in orderly rows: barmaids and geishas, gangsters and cavalry officers, maharajahs and matadors.
After 3 decades of dress-up, a costume wrangler takes her leave John Kelly 2010
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The man next to me persistently slurped his goat soup, barmaids screamed across the room at eachother, and a lone cockroach meandered up and down the wall, only inches from my face.
Archive 2009-01-01 KateG 2009
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Surely they should be playing cards, gambling, groping barmaids, or some such?
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
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The man next to me persistently slurped his goat soup, barmaids screamed across the room at eachother, and a lone cockroach meandered up and down the wall, only inches from my face.
Goat is Good for the Soul KateG 2009
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The doors of the public house at the corner were swinging wide, and he saw the lights and the smiling barmaids, heard the many voices discussing the fight and the prosperous chink of money on the bar.
A PIECE OF STEAK 2010
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Surely they should be playing cards, gambling, groping barmaids, or some such?
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
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It is not just that Atkins, in appearance, speech and manner, carries a distinctly raunchy air about herself, reminding you of the caricatured barmaids featured in film and TV comedies of the last 60 years.
Former Ofsted head takes on private education provider Peter Wilby 2010
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