Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A little maid.
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- noun A little
maid .
Etymologies
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From Middle English maidekin, equivalent to maid + -kin. Cognate with Middle Dutch magdeken ("little girl"), German Mädchen ("girl").
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Examples
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I greet the little maidkin, and bid her welcome to this unutterable world.
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Carlyle, Thomas 1883
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I greet the little _maidkin, _ and bid her welcome to this unutterable world.
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Thomas Carlyle 1838
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