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as in prostitutes
archaic
a boldly flirtatious or sexually promiscuous woman
a local wench who was well-known at the town's tavern
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as in maids
a female domestic servant
a kitchen wench who went on to become an award-winning chef
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Noun
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Shakespeare shouldn’t feel intimidating—historically, his plays were loud and chaotic, with drunk spectators and prostitutes in the audience.—
Ben Croll,
Variety,
15 Jan. 2026 -
Epstein’s young victims were also threatened and followed; they were grilled by his lawyers and disbelieved by prosecutors, who at times treated them like prostitutes, instead of victims.—
Julie K. Brown,
Miami Herald,
18 Dec. 2025
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Made up of several former maids’ rooms with strange proportions, this 323-square-foot Paris apartment that Atelier Opale recently redesigned started off confused and charmless.—
Annabelle Dufraigne,
Architectural Digest,
20 Jan. 2026
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Usher is a role akin to a general manager of the building, overseeing everything from food service to construction and managing a staff of about 90, including butlers, maids, housekeepers, chefs, curators and engineers.—
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy,
USA Today,
7 Dec. 2025
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The service From the smiles that greet travellers at the front door to the housekeepers, restaurant staff, and pool attendants, there’s a sense of friendliness here that cascades down from the effortlessly charming general manager, Pep Lozano.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
26 Jan. 2026
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King also said in recent years the hospital doubled the number of housekeepers per shift in its emergency department, and also increased the number of its emergency department transporters by 2%.—
Lisa Schencker,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Jan. 2026
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The answer became weather alert sirens, similar to what's already installed in Ellicott City, Maryland.—
Dennis Valera,
CBS News,
7 Jan. 2026
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You can still be cited for failing to yield to an emergency vehicle if an officer finds your use of headphones contributed to you missing the sirens.—
Shelby Slade,
AZCentral.com,
6 Jan. 2026
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Told in a lingua franca of philosophy and academic jargon, Lucky’s speech has something to do with the collapse of reason and logic, and the futility of human progress, which is ultimately what tramps Estragon (Reeves) and Vladimir (Winter) are up against, too.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
17 Dec. 2025
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Help, of course, isn’t coming—not over the Indian Ocean, not in the nursing home, not on the tramps’ moonlit road.—
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Wenches.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wenches. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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