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

Ms. Witbooi became a domestic servant in Cape Town at the age of 17 and launched her campaign a few years later.

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2023

Hattie McDaniel became the first black actress to be nominated for, and win, an Academy Award for her role as domestic servant Mammy.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2020

She had been a domestic servant on the mainland when Con Daly met and married her, and she had never seemed to have any friends.

From An Isle in the Water by Tynan, Katharine