noun
definition
A female domestic worker attached to the non-servant quarter part of the house, as opposed to a scullery maid.
definition
A housewife.
verb
definition
To be a housemaid.
definition
To wait on someone hand on foot, to watch them.
Examples of housemaid in a Sentence
Richer homes would have a housemaid to do this work.
After tea Sonya noticed a housemaid at Natasha's door timidly waiting to let her pass.
These ornaments displayed the owner's tastes and skills, but it was the unfortunate housemaid who had the chore of regularly cleaning them.
Bursitis is sometimes due to wear and tear arising from a particular trade, e.g. housemaid 's knee.
Commonest site for bursitis is just below the knee-cap, the famous condition called ' housemaid's knee ' .
This was based on an old manuscript collection of poetry, rescued by Percy in Humphrey Pitt's house at Shifnal, Shropshire, from the hands of the housemaid who was about to light the fire with it.
In the knee, this is ' housemaid's knee ' - in the elbow ' olecranon bursitis ' .
Ace tries to befriend the young housemaid, Sue.
One was the village schoolmistress, one was head housemaid at Loders Court and the third kept house for the other two.
It's that protege of yours, that sweet Princess Drubetskaya, that Anna Mikhaylovna whom I would not take for a housemaid... the infamous, vile woman!
Of course we get a housemaid for the heavy work.