bondmaid

American  

[bond-meyd] / ˈbɒndˌmeɪd /

noun

1. a female slave.

2. a woman bound to service without wages.

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bondmaid British  

/ ˈbɒndˌmeɪd /

noun

1. an unmarried female serf or slave

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Etymology

Origin of bondmaid

First recorded in 1520–30; bond ² + maid

Example Sentences

Her heroine, pretty Chinese bondmaid Peony, is in the service of a wealthy Jewish family, the Ezras.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then and there Hagar might well forget that she was Sarah's bondmaid, and only remember that she had been Abraham's wife—that she was still Ishmael's mother.

From Notable Women of Olden Time by Anonymous

But he who was of the bondmaid was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.

From The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity by Orr, Charles Ebert

For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one   by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.

From Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians by Graebner, Theodore

GUERCINO'S Agar—where the bondmaid hears   From Abram's lips that he and she must part, And looks at him with eyes all full of tears   That seem the very last drops from her heart.

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael