Word Finder - domestics

definition

A house servant; a maid; a household worker.

definition

A domestic dispute, whether verbal or violent

example

2005: Bellingham-Whatcom County Commission Against Domestic Violence, Domestic Violence in Whatcom County (read on the Whatcom County website athttps//web.archive.org/web/20060618212243/http://www.co.whatcom.wa.us/boards/dv_whatcom042505.pdf on 20 May 2006) - The number of “verbal domestics” (where law enforcement determines that no assault has occurred and where no arrest is made), decreased significantly.

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Articles manufactured within a country rather than being imported, especially home-made cotton cloths.

Her residence was compliments of Janet O'Brien, one of a long line of Bird Song's temporary domestics.

His mission was very successful, and soon after his return he was made count of the domestics and received in marriage Serena, the emperor's niece and adopted daughter.

The displeasure of the master sometimes dismissed his domestics to the more oppressive labours of the mill or the mine.

The government has aided immigrant farmers and farm labourers having a certain sum of money, also female domestics, by paying part of their passage money.

An attempt to illustrate household equality by having the servants sit at table with the rest of the family was frustrated by the dislike of his two sensible domestics for such an inconvenient arrangement.

The Directions to Servants (first published in 1745) in like manner derive their overpowering comic force from the imperturbable solemnity with which all the misdemeanours that domestics can commit are enjoined upon them as duties.

Those of the urban middle classes are shopkeepers and artizans, and those of the lower class are domestics and day labourers.

But we are made to confront the fact that such women, who are usually invisible and ignored, are not just faceless domestics.

His father, Karl Johann Philipp (1801-1859), well known as a hymn-writer (see Lyra domestics, 1st series, London, 1860; 2nd series, 5864).

We might not get the gangbangers, car jackings and armed robberies like the big cities but we sure have our share of domestics.

Those employed in workshops, whose overseers were themselves most commonly of servile status, had probably a harder lot than domestics; and the agricultural labourers were not unfrequently chained, and treated much in the same way as beasts of burden.

A large crowd of militiamen and domestics were moving toward her, and in their midst several men were supporting by the armpits and dragging along a little old man in a uniform and decorations.