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Examples of housemaid in a Sentence
became both nurse and housemaid to the elderly man
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Then there is Naima, who might be more than just a housemaid who has always worked for Nuri’s family.
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Hazlitt, 3 Apr. 2024
On the fateful morning, let the housemaid, on entering each visitor’s room, carefully replace the empty stocking dangling on the bedpost with the bulging, worsted one.
—Nancy Mitford, Vogue, 24 Dec. 2023
To cap it all, Elizabeth, the queen’s personal housemaid, died of blood poisoning.
—Jonathan Miles, Town & Country, 5 Sep. 2023
What first started as astronomers' wives, daughters, even a housemaid grew into a group of stellar women.
—Lucy Evans, Scientific American, 22 June 2023
His mother was a housemaid.
—Russell Banks, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2021
Yang Qingming, 69, worked as a housemaid and never qualified for employee insurance.
—Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2023
The White Ribbon was Leonine Benesch’s breakout, but the German actress gained a wider audience with her turn as Greta, the naive housemaid caught up in a Nazi conspiracy in hit German series Babylon Berlin.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Dec. 2022
Her job included dressing in costume to portray Caroline Branham, an enslaved housemaid, when greeting tourists on the grounds.
—Jill Abramson, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
Hazlitt, 3 Apr. 2024
On the fateful morning, let the housemaid, on entering each visitor’s room, carefully replace the empty stocking dangling on the bedpost with the bulging, worsted one.
—Nancy Mitford, Vogue, 24 Dec. 2023
To cap it all, Elizabeth, the queen’s personal housemaid, died of blood poisoning.
—Jonathan Miles, Town & Country, 5 Sep. 2023
What first started as astronomers' wives, daughters, even a housemaid grew into a group of stellar women.
—Lucy Evans, Scientific American, 22 June 2023
His mother was a housemaid.
—Russell Banks, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2021
Yang Qingming, 69, worked as a housemaid and never qualified for employee insurance.
—Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2023
The White Ribbon was Leonine Benesch’s breakout, but the German actress gained a wider audience with her turn as Greta, the naive housemaid caught up in a Nazi conspiracy in hit German series Babylon Berlin.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Dec. 2022
Her job included dressing in costume to portray Caroline Branham, an enslaved housemaid, when greeting tourists on the grounds.
—Jill Abramson, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
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First Known Use
1673, in the meaning defined above
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housemaid
noun
house·maid
ˈhau̇-ˌsmād 
: a girl or woman hired to do housework
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