parlormaid
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of parlormaid
Example Sentences
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Marsh played Rose Buck, the head parlormaid in the Bellamy home.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2025
When a Japanese artist bedded with a humble parlormaid in the early part of Queen Victoria's reign, the auspicious result was Japan's greatest politico-financier, His Excellency Korekiyo Takahashi.
From Time Magazine Archive
A little, brown-eyed, onetime parlormaid was making Englishmen sit up & take notice last week.
From Time Magazine Archive
Shakespeare uses it and my parlormaid uses it, and an idiom which Shakespeare and my parlormaid use is good enough for me.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jill was talking to the parlormaid whose head had popped up over the banisters flanking the stairs that led to the kitchen.
From The Little Warrior by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
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