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Recent Examples of maidservant This helps explain why the maidservant was subjected to multiple inspections, with a succession of witnesses rooting around beneath Hall’s skirts and petticoats for firm proof. Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024 In 1627, a professional lace-maker named Thomasine Hall boarded a ship in England and arrived at Jamestown, Virginia, to become a maidservant in the household of a man named John Tyos. Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024 If the apparent maidservant was actually a man committing fornication that might lead to another servant’s falling pregnant, then Hall was a materially destabilizing influence in the community. Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024 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. 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
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Noun
  • If enacted, the wage mandate would affect thousands of workers in San Diego, from hotel housekeepers to ballpark ticket takers and zookeepers, some of whom would see their hourly pay rise by as much as 45% from the city’s current minimum wage of $17.25 an hour.
    Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2025
  • Actresses mentioned in the running included Judith Anderson (the housekeeper in Hitchcock’s Rebecca) and Helen Hayes.
    Marc Berman, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025
Noun
  • You as a cook, a chef, a butler, a maid, the engineer.
    Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 16 June 2025
  • Often Black women were relegated to stereotypical roles as maids, mammies, or exoticized figures.
    Ime Ekpo, Forbes.com, 8 June 2025

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“Maidservant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maidservant. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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