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- noun Plural form of
maid-servant .
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Examples
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There were men in his village who toiled a whole year for ten dollars Mexican, and there were women who made nets all the year round for five dollars, while in the houses of shopkeepers there were maid-servants who received four dollars for a year of service.
THE CHINAGO 2010
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New England maid-servants, the canaries singing in the wide windows, and he wondered if she could understand.
CHAPTER 25 2010
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I have three maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose absolute reliability is quite above suspicion.
Sole Music 2010
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Without her maid-servants, the chamber seemed oppressively empty.
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Frequent were the admonitions he had given his maid-servants on this score, and every now and then he was turning them off; but still the last was the worst, and in the meanwhile the poor man was the sufferer.
Saint Ronan's Well 2008
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They carried her hither and thither with much noise; men and women were sitting together on the waggon, men-servants and maid-servants shouting through the streets until they came to the barn.
Archive 2008-09-01 Carla 2008
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They carried her hither and thither with much noise; men and women were sitting together on the waggon, men-servants and maid-servants shouting through the streets until they came to the barn.
Halegmonath (September): the early English calendar Carla 2008
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The king fell in love with the young Sarah, and gave the pretended brother abundance of sheep, oxen, he-asses, she-asses, camels, men-servants and maid-servants; which proves that Egypt was then a powerful and well-regulated, and consequently an ancient kingdom, and that those were magnificently rewarded who came and offered their sisters to the kings of
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The father of the faithful told the same lie as in Egypt, making his wife pass for his sister; which brought him more sheep, oxen, men-servants, and maid-servants.
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With a flat and two or three maid-servants one has only to lock the door and go.
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