Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The duties of a parlor-maid; the act of performing those duties.
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Imagine them looking at her, with those glasses and lace collars and hats that had come from Akron’s best department stores, bought with the last of the parlor-maiding wages, and her Lutheran prayer book (in German) and her German accent (didn’t Bradford go off to war to fight the Germans?) and her shy ways.
Dream State Diane Roberts 2008
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