servingwoman

plural servingwomen · alternative serving woman · alternative serving-woman

1. historicalA female servant.

   Sarah, aged 26 / servingwoman

   1986, Upminster Parish Records, Manpower Services Commission, page 176

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   […]; and Cascorro courting Eulalia, the servingwoman, who was the very image of domesticity as she sat sewing seed pearls on a pair of gray gloves.

   1957, Robin Carson, Pawn of Time: An Extravaganza, Henry Holt and Company, page 138

   Sisly Milk-pail, servingwoman to Frankford.

   1961, original by Heywood, Thomas (first published in 1607), edited by Van Fossen and Richard Waight, A Woman Killed with Kindness, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 2

   The servingwoman glanced at her in surprise, and she found herself blushing.

   1972, Mildred B. Davis, Three Minutes to Midnight, Random House, →ISBN, page 63

   The windows in the hall had to be kept closed because of the stench from the street, and each morning she had the servingwomen burn spices to perfume the air. […] A servingwoman stooped near the bed, carefully collecting fragments of china between her fingertips and transferring them to a tray.

   1983, Marion Meade, Sybille: Life, Love, & Art in the Face of Absolute Power, Open Road Media, →ISBN

   “This is beyond the beyond! To think that he can actually dismiss my own servingwomen! […]” […] He was handing a goblet of wine to the young servingwoman who was with him.

   1987, Virginia Henley, The Raven and the Rose; republished United States: Random House, 2009, →ISBN, pages 217–218

   Synonyms: maidservant, servingmaid, womanservant