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Examples of maidservant in a Sentence
a large estate that once had many maidservants
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But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates.
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Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Aug. 2023
Alfonso enlists the sisters’ maidservant, Despina, to aid in the plot.
—Jeremy Yudkin, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2023
On the other hand, in the 17th century a maidservant was able to thwart the unwelcome advances of the diarist Samuel Pepys by grabbing a pin from her pocket and threatening to stab him with it, according to his own account.
—Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2022
Priya, a maidservant working first for and then alongside Malini, comes into her own as a free woman and worker of ancient power.
—Liz Braswell, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2022
His mother, Jeanne Rabin, a French maidservant, died about six months after his birth.
—Jenny Uglow, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2022
Petra, a frisky maidservant coming off of a weekend dalliance, turns to the audience and imagines her possible futures, first married to a miller’s son, then to a businessman, then to the Prince of Wales.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2021
In this version and in the one at the Uffizi, a maidservant, Abra, forcefully holds Holofernes down while Judith confidently hacks away at his neck.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2020
De Hooch was arguably the first artist to sanctify these passing moments among the Dutch housewives and maidservants of a prosperous but unsettled time.
—B.t. | Delft, The Economist, 16 Oct. 2019
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Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Aug. 2023
Alfonso enlists the sisters’ maidservant, Despina, to aid in the plot.
—Jeremy Yudkin, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2023
On the other hand, in the 17th century a maidservant was able to thwart the unwelcome advances of the diarist Samuel Pepys by grabbing a pin from her pocket and threatening to stab him with it, according to his own account.
—Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2022
Priya, a maidservant working first for and then alongside Malini, comes into her own as a free woman and worker of ancient power.
—Liz Braswell, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2022
His mother, Jeanne Rabin, a French maidservant, died about six months after his birth.
—Jenny Uglow, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2022
Petra, a frisky maidservant coming off of a weekend dalliance, turns to the audience and imagines her possible futures, first married to a miller’s son, then to a businessman, then to the Prince of Wales.
—Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2021
In this version and in the one at the Uffizi, a maidservant, Abra, forcefully holds Holofernes down while Judith confidently hacks away at his neck.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2020
De Hooch was arguably the first artist to sanctify these passing moments among the Dutch housewives and maidservants of a prosperous but unsettled time.
—B.t. | Delft, The Economist, 16 Oct. 2019
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First Known Use
14th century, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of maidservant was
in the 14th century
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“Maidservant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/maidservant. Accessed 5 Dec. 2023.
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maidservant
noun
maid·ser·vant
ˈmād-ˌsər-vənt 
: a female servant
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