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maid

[mayd] / meɪd /


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There was a small kitchen, with a sign taped to the fridge: “Please clean up after yourself no maid service here!!!”

From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026

Sophie’s chosen family, like maid Hazel and Footman John, are as important as the Bridgerton clan.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

He frequently speaks about his humble beginnings as the son of a bartender and a hotel maid.

From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026

Swift did not have a traditional maid of honour, instead choosing her brother Austin as her man of honour.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

“They are for Miss March, the man said. And here’s a note,” put in the maid, holding it to Meg.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

The Bacevicius sisters, dressed in silk saris draped and pinned by maids at their hotel, got backstage access at the New Delhi wedding they attended.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025

Having been friend-zoned, Penelope doesn’t try to include herself in the pool of excited maids throwing themselves at him, enlisting him to play Pygmalion and provide her charm lessons instead.

From Salon ● May 17, 2024

The trend, Weil wrote, encompasses hotel maids, cable installers, commercial janitors and merchandise pickers in Amazon warehouses — all are actually on the payroll of third-party employment firms.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2024

That proved a winning proposition for generations of working people, yielding middle class paychecks for bartenders, restaurant servers, casino dealers and maids.

From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2024

During summers home from Institute, the Coleman boys pulled stints as bellmen, and Katherine and her sister took jobs as personal maids to individual guests.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly




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