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Recent Examples of housemaid Marsh’s mother had worked as a housemaid, and Atkins’ father had been an under-butler. Victoria Edel, People.com, 13 Apr. 2025 The thriller stars Sweeney as Millie, who gets a job as a housemaid for a seemingly sweet and perfect family. Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 2 Apr. 2025 Here, Trent offers us a clock mender whose friend is facing sedition charges as part of a crackdown on political reading clubs, and a housemaid whose testimony might exonerate her. Olivia Waite, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025 The film is based on Freida McFadden's novel of the same name, and follows a young woman down on her luck who starts working for a wealthy couple as their housemaid. Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 22 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for housemaid
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Noun
  • The best bit for the housekeepers?
    Mattias Goldmann, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Last year, while our house was being vacuumed by a housekeeper, Butch bit her on her calf.
    Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Chastain portrayed Celia Foote in the drama based on Kathryn Stockett's novel of the same name about a white journalist chronicling the lives of Black maids working for white households in 1960s Mississippi.
    Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Ella Beaty will play Lizzie, while Rebecca Hall will play Lizzie’s stepmother, Abby, and Vicky Krieps will play Bridget Sullvan, a maid in the Borden household.
    Joe Otterson, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025

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