scullerymaid

plural scullerymaids

1. alternativeAlternative form of scullery maid.

   A sculleryman may be employed at not less than £1; a scullerymaid may be employed at not less than 17s. 6d.

   1912, Awards, Recommendations, Agreements, Orders, Etc., New Zealand. Department of Labour, page 362

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   From the wives of peers and the daughters of lord-lieutenants down to Dublin tradeswomen with a taste for rhyming, and even scullerymaids with no tastes at all, a whole hierarchy of female slaves bowed to his rule, and were admitted into higher and lower degrees of favour.

   1882, Leslie Stephen, “Stella and Vanessa”, in Swift, London: Macmillan and Co., page 122

   At the end of the train of women and agas rode Azim Bey and his attendants, obliged to follow even the negresses who acted as cooks and scullerymaids, a humiliation which sorely tasked the boy’s proud spirit.

   1896, Sydney C. Grier [pen name; Hilda Gregg], ““The Voice of England in the East.””, in His Excellency’s English Governess, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, page 326

   Persons employed in the capacities of kitchenmen, pantrymen, scullerymen, waiters, porters (day and night), yardmen, handymen, oyster openers, waitresses, kitchenmaids, scullerymaids, and pantrymaids, are all provided for in a scale, the minimum of which is £1 and the maximum £1 12s. 6d., which is the wage for the waiter.

   1914, Reports of Proceedings Before the Boards of Conciliation and the Court of Arbitration, Western Australia. Court of Arbitration, page 148

   Kitchenmaid, pantrymaid, scullerymaid, cleaner, general hand and unspecified workers [“Male $”:] — [“Female $”:] 5.85

   1968 July 10, The Western Australian Industrial Gazette, page 292