lady's maid
Example Sentences
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The composers of two songs in the vernacular span the social spectrum: One, playfully elegant, is by Marguerite, Queen of Navarre, and the other is by Martha Baerts, a lady’s maid.
From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2022
His father, Ernest, worked as a milkman while his mother, Ethel, had been a lady's maid before her marriage.
From BBC • Aug. 10, 2022
"It's cyclical," explains star Raquel Cassidy, who plays a lady's maid in the franchise.
From Salon • Jun. 28, 2022
Herbert George Wells was born in 1866 to an unsuccessful shopkeeper and a former lady’s maid.
From Washington Post • Nov. 2, 2021
As lady’s maid to the president’s wife, her tasks included caring for the expensive silk and woolen clothing and the linens worn closest to the body, as well as delicate lace and handkerchiefs.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
