domestic servant

Example Sentences

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He found himself working as a domestic servant being paid half of what he was told and sleeping on a floor.

From Barron's • Feb. 16, 2026

So the women who might have gone out to be a domestic servant, not so many of them did.

From Scientific American • Sep. 21, 2023

It was a very New York story, but when they took it to Mumbai, they made her character a domestic servant in a wealthy family, highlighting the class divide there.

From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2022

And he began his training in Liverpool from where he wrote regularly to Kitty Tombleson, a "domestic servant" from Froncysyllte, a stone's throw from his own family home.

From BBC • Sep. 27, 2018

Ann Packet became domestic servant at 34, Chesterfield Terrace, then, and congratulated herself on the kitchen being level with the parlours, which was good for her ankles, and spared her breath considerably.

From Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 2 of 3) by Robinson, Frederick William