maidservant

Example Sentences

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Ceruti was tagged “Pitocchetto” — the little beggar — given his fondness for pictures of maidservants, peasant families and vagrants in tattered rags.

From Los Angeles Times

He enjoyed a privileged childhood: in a 2014 column for the Nikkei Shimbun newspaper, he recounted how his elementary school classmates had teased him when he revealed that he breakfasted with his family’s “maidservant.”

From New York Times

Like a scene from “Game of Thrones,” the Rubens shows a grinning maidservant pulling the tongue out from St. John the Baptist’s freshly severed head as she presents it on a platter to Salome.

From New York Times

Around the time she painted “Lucretia,” she rendered a riveting scene in which Judith and Abra, her maidservant, hurriedly stuff the severed head of grizzled Gen. Holofernes into a bag, anxious about discovery.

From Los Angeles Times

Without a maidservant to dress me, I wear a uniform of tracksuit bottoms, T-shirts and hoodies.

From The Guardian