Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kitchen-maid; a female scullion.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Now is he for the numbers that Petrarch flowed in: Laura to his lady was but a kitchen-wench; marry, she had a better love to be-rhyme her; Dido a dowdy; Cleopatra a gipsy;
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“He who wants to eat bread must earn it; out with the kitchen-wench.”
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“No,” said the man, “There is still a little stunted kitchen-wench which my late wife left behind her, but she cannot possibly be the bride.”
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Was it Nitouche, the head-cook, who was grumbling because the kitchen-wench had not scoured the brass saucepans to the last point of mirrory brightness?
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I didn't want to bite and scratch like a kitchen-wench.
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Now is he for the numbers that Petrarch flowed in: Laura to his lady was but a kitchen-wench; marry, she had a better love to be-rime her; Dido a dowdy; Cleopatra a gipsy; Helen and Hero hildings and harlots; Thisbe, a grey eye or so, but not to the purpose.
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S. Marry, sir, shes the kitchen-wench, and all grease; and I know not what use to put her to but to make a lamp of her and run from her by her own light.
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No, said the man, There is still a little stunted kitchen-wench which my late wife left behind her, but she cannot possibly be the bride.
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He who wants to eat bread must earn it; out with the kitchen-wench.
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She had suffered so much from that particular class of the risen kitchen-wench of which the woman before her was so typical and example: years of sorrow, of poverty were behind her: loss of fortune, of kindred, of friends -- she, even now
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