What's the difference between chambermaid and housemaid?
Chambermaid
Definition:
(n.) A maidservant who has the care of chambers, making the beds, sweeping, cleaning the rooms, etc.
(n.) A lady's maid.
Example Sentences:
(1) Also ruled inadmissible was the account of a former chambermaid from the Holiday Inn in Leicester, who came forward during his trial with evidence to say she had discovered him in the bath with a girl she believed, but couldn’t be sure, was about 12.
(2) There are tales of hotel chambermaids and shepherds being told to pack their bags, and then come back as hired guns to grab work as and when their former employers require it.
(3) This is from the 1949 Variety Programme Policy Guide for Writers and Producers: "There is an absolute ban on the following: jokes about lavatories, effeminacy in men, immorality of any kind; suggestive reference to honeymoon couples, chambermaids, prostitution; extreme care should be taken in dealing with references to or jokes about marital infidelity."
(4) They also reflected his experience of London and life outside it: Beatie was inspired by Doreen Bicker, a chambermaid at The Bell Hotel, Norwich, where Wesker was working as a kitchen porter.
(5) What about the struggling window cleaner who can only find a few hours, or indeed the hotel chambermaid who’s been reluctantly reinvented as a business?
(6) His first sketch involved Mike or Bernie asking at a hotel for breakfast in bed and winding up in his room with a chambermaid played by Cilla Black.
(7) At various stages of her career she has been a chambermaid, a model and an entrepreneur.
(8) The Mountaintop is a simple two-hander: Martin Luther King talks to chambermaid Carmae in his hotel room.
(9) This is part of the Citizens UK rolling campaign to raise poverty pay for cleaners, security guards, hotel chambermaids and others.
(10) Here, Liliane Bettencourt, 88, the richest woman in France, is waited on by 17 staff, including chambermaids, cooks, hairdressers, nurses and a beautician who undertakes the daily "preparation of her skin" before her makeup is applied.
(11) Substantial and statistically significant excesses of spontaneous abortion were observed in nursing aides, women in sales occupations and food and beverage service; of stillbirth in agriculture and horticulture, leatherwork, and certain sales occupations; of congenital defects in women in child care, certain service occupations, and the manufacture of metal and electrical goods; and of low birth weight in chambermaids, cleaners, and janitors, and in women employed in the manufacture of food and drink, metal and electrical goods, and clothing.
(12) "There was the analogy of the chambermaid in the hotel who sees something go on; you can't pay her because she has a duty of care to the employer.
(13) Five years ago Citizens UK campaigned hard to persuade Hilton to pay the living wage ( in London now £8.80 an hour ), with cleaners and chambermaids waving placards outside their hotels.
(14) The butler has a theory, and so does the second chambermaid.
Housemaid
Definition:
(n.) A female servant employed to do housework, esp. to take care of the rooms.
Example Sentences:
(1) Johnson also appeared to go around dismissing staff with about as much regard as a dowager for a housemaid, though she says this wasn't accurate.
(2) Elegantly dressed in black in her high-ceilinged sitting room, surrounded by antiques, Principato appeared unfazed by news of a possible attempt on her life, calmly tapping her cigarette ash into a silver ashtray that had been placed strategically on a coffee table by a housemaid seconds before she had entered the room.
(3) In Sharjah, another of the United Arab Emirates, a decades-old business which took impoverished Indian women who had been promised jobs in supermarkets or as housemaids and forced them into prostitution was uncovered by police in November.
(4) Can a housemaid really go away, take a course in hairdressing, and then come back and become a lady's maid?
(5) First admission rates to the psychiatric hospital in Kuwait revealed that foreign housemaids as a whole had about five times the rate of Kuwaiti females.
(6) But my grandmother worked as a housemaid all her life and she taught me some truths.
(7) Since she worked as a housemaid for a doctor she had access to textbooks and professional literature.
(8) In a long, dense address to the Social Market Foundation thinktank, taking in themes as varied as cognitive science, the schools attended by Stella McCartney's children and the historic reading habits of housemaids, the education secretary lambasted what he sees as the pernicious, decades-long effect of progressive education.
(9) It emerged with just one award, for Octavia Spencer's supporting turn as a vengeful housemaid in 1960s Mississippi.
(10) A new super-rich class with butlers and housemaids has moved in, though mainly from overseas rather than Britain, while owner-occupation has become a mirage for growing numbers of the less well-off.
(11) The 32-year-old works as a housemaid in Delhi, and like more than one billion Indians, has seen her cash evaporate since November, when India suddenly recalled its two-highest value banknotes.
(12) Arguing that such intellectual rigour and desire for knowledge was once common in poor families, using examples such as housemaids reading Dickens and Conrad, Gove said the decay in state schools had become so endemic that the English rich almost universally chose to educate their children privately and traditionally, giving examples including Stella McCartney, Will Self and Gary Lineker.
(13) It’s as though nothing has changed in the 300 years since desert tribes used the very same routes to bring slaves to north Africa: Nigerian women told they are going to Italy to work as housemaids only to be trafficked into desert brothels with no idea when they might leave, young men cruelly beaten and held captive for months until their families pay a ransom, women forced to take contraception to stop themselves becoming pregnant at the hands of smugglers.
(14) It gives him the look of a young Victorian aristocrat intent on ravaging the housemaids.
(15) According to hospital diagnoses the housemaids had significantly more acute situational disturbances and mania, and less depressive illness and organic mental disorders.