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handmaiden

noun

ˈhan(d)-ˌmā-dᵊn

variants also handmaid

Definition of handmaiden

as in housekeeper

a female domestic servant the princess was intensely shy, and allowed only her handmaiden to enter her chambers

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Recent Examples of handmaiden 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 The common foe of all is expansionist Iran and its handmaidens Hamas and Hezbollah. — Josef Joffe, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2026 That’s for the courts to say, not Trump’s handmaidens in cruelty. — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 18 July 2025 And what the project means by the term—turning the Department of Energy into a handmaiden of the coal, oil and natural gas industry—betrays not only the taxpayer but science itself. — Megha Satyanarayana, Scientific American, 25 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for handmaiden

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Everyone from the front-desk employees to the housekeepers to the yoga instructors were helpful and attentive.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
By tightening those subplots, the series focuses more by design on exploring the inner lives of Cathy, Adam and Lee (Hoon Lee) — the Trask’s cook and housekeeper who becomes a second parent of sorts to Charles’ twin boys, Cal and Aron.

— Max Gao, Variety, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of housekeeper

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This is the kind of show where an opulent tea party is dramatized not just by many different plates of fancy pastries, fancy wreaths and lots of furniture, but by having all that stuff carted in by a dozen or so butlers, maids and other servants.

— Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 1 Oct. 2026
Loyal Maids in Extravagant Mansions While Solana is a disorderly servant, Clarita reflects the trope of the loyal maid of the higher class, the societal expectation in the region.

— Damaly Gonzalez, ARTnews.com, 30 Sep. 2026

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