as in housekeeper
a female domestic servant
The mansion was formerly owned by a series of old-line families that relied on biddies to maintain it.
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Chris Brown was found liable by a Los Angeles jury on Tuesday for $13 million in the gruesome case of a dog that mauled and disfigured his housekeeper at his home in 2020.
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Avila alleged in her lawsuit that she and sister Maria Avila were hired in November 2020 as housekeepers at Brown’s home in Tarzana.
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Palace maids stand around a plump woman, struggling to fasten a black belt sash around her waist.
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The series follows a woman named Emma over the course of more than six decades of her life, from the 1900s through the 1970s, working her way from impoverished maid to the world’s richest woman.
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“Biddy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/biddy. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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