Meanings
nounwaiting maid (plural waiting maids)
plural waiting maids
- historicalA lady's female servant.
As she was sometimes obliged to be alone, or only with her French waiting-maid, she sent to the metropolis for all the new publications […].
1788, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary: A FictionSynonyms: maid-in-waiting
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nounA lady's female servant.
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