milkmaid

[ milk-meyd ]

noun

1. a woman who milks cows or is employed in a dairy; dairymaid.

milkmaid

/ ˈmɪlkˌmeɪd /

noun

1. a girl or woman who milks cows

Word History and Origins

Origin of milkmaid¹

First recorded in 1545–55; milk + maid

Example Sentences

The en masse blossom will include golden poppies — the California state flower — as well as desert dandelions, lupins, whispering bells and milkmaids.

From New York Times

Webster imagines her ancestor’s work as a milkmaid, the trial and her ultimate indenture on a plantation in Maryland where Molly met Bana’ka, the enslaved man who became the father of her children.

From Washington Post

She’s a brainy brunette wallflower, a fraying nerve barely held together by tightly plaited milkmaid braids.

From New York Times

But Delft tiles were also meant to be fanciful, and the cartoonish, sometimes irreverent painted embellishments on even the earliest ones — featuring milkmaids, windmills and begging dogs — became as recognizable as the blue-and-white glaze.

From New York Times

The controls are fiddly, the platforming can get very confusing, and the game churns like an arthritic milkmaid whenever there’s more than two moving things on the screen.

From The Verge