still room maid

noun

A maid working in the still room, whose main duties were making cakes and preparing tea and coffee.

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nounstill room maid (plural still room maids)

plural still room maids

  1. historicalA maid working in the still room, whose main duties were making cakes and preparing tea and coffee.

    The still-room maids have breakfast and tea in the still-room and dinner and supper in the Hall.

    1915, P. G. Wodehouse, Something Fresh, Everyman, published 2005, page 108
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    A door in the housekeeper's room should open into the still-room, in which the housekeeper, assisted by the still-room maid, would make preserves, cakes, &c.

    1833, John Claudius Loudon, Encyclopædia of Cottage Architecture, page 1698
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