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

At work, a domestic servant might be expected to cook and clean, while tending her employer’s children, making the beds and washing the clothes.

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2023

Also living with them was a "general domestic" servant - a 17-year-old girl called Frances Hinds, who had been born in Hampstead.

From BBC • Jan. 6, 2022

Contracts, promises, and beliefs in promises run through the whole range of economic life,—the domestic servant, paid weekly, illustrates all three.

From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.