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housemaiden (複数形 housemaidens)

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   • 1844, [Katherine] Thomson, The White Mask, volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], page 41:

     The Queen was in good spirits, discoursing with her usual volubility to all, and indifferently on every subject; for she was as able to discuss a knotty point with a divine as to teach her housemaidens a new stitch in needle work.

   • 1846 August, “Hampton Court, Past and Present”, in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, volume XXXIV, number CC, London: G. W. Nickisson, […], page 180, column 2:

     The few rooms that were shewn were thronged by a hot crew, who had each to pay some toll to a virago of a housemaiden at each several door.

   • 1983, Satendra Nandan, editor, Language and Literature in Multicultural Contexts, page 272:

     The archetypal image of the wife is that of the submissive, obedient housemaiden, whose sole obligation lies in looking after the welfare of her husband and her marriage.