old-fashionedDH a femaleservant who cleans someone’s house 女佣,女仆
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housemaid• They hit the headlines last year when Richard left his first wife, Caroline, a housemaid with Princess Diana.• She knocked quietly, as good discreethousemaids do, on Maman's door.• In place of a wand she had housemaids, parlor maids, laundresses, cooks, and a rotundchauffeur named Courtney.• One such sceptic, a certain Montgomery, is likened to a pricklyhousemaid.• She had been second housemaid at Chesney Hall and Arthur Naulls had been under-gardener.• Sally Jo Bannow makes even Edith the housemaid into a major comiccharacter.• Jean, the housemaid, wrote regularly.