as in chambermaid
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Noun
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Prior to her escape, Judge served as a chambermaid in the President’s House.—
Timothy Welbeck,
The Conversation,
20 May 2026 -
In 1911, a gas explosion in that room caused major damage to the hotel and severely injured a chambermaid, according to the Estes Park Trail Gazette.—
Julie Tremaine,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Lady Pamela Hicks, a lady-in-waiting and bridesmaid of Queen Elizabeth, has died.—
Rachel Burchfield,
InStyle,
5 June 2026
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Hussey was a lady-in-waiting to the late Queen Elizabeth and is a godmother to Prince William.—
Janine Henni,
PEOPLE,
22 Apr. 2026
Noun
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In Dish Jockey, an etching from 1993, a harried woman in a bandanna (shades of Rosie the Riveter) scrubs dishes while an ensemble of Tinkerbell-like housekeepers complete other chores nearby.—
Jeremy Lybarger,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
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Carmen Lauber, the Richins' housekeeper, is questioned by investigators.—
Natalie Morales,
CBS News,
24 May 2026
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Brush in hand, she is dwarfed by huge canvases within the paintings on which bare-breasted figures are in the process of emerging—a waiflike handmaiden hard at work at the feet of her American Helens of Troy.—
Naomi Fry,
New Yorker,
23 May 2026
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The common foe of all is expansionist Iran and its handmaidens Hamas and Hezbollah.—
Josef Joffe,
The Atlantic,
14 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Taking with her only Fanny and a nursemaid, Wollstonecraft travelled to Norway, Sweden and Denmark, and during her travels, wrote dozens of letters to Imlay in which the infant Fanny might occasionally be glimpsed.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 June 2026
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Anna has come East to meet her estranged father, the Swedish bargeman Chris (Brian d’Arcy James), who believes Anna’s been earning money as a nursemaid.—
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
14 Dec. 2025
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“Abigail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abigail. Accessed 14 Jun. 2026.
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