What's the difference between chambermaid and maid?

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.

Maid


Definition:

  • (n.) An unmarried woman; usually, a young unmarried woman; esp., a girl; a virgin; a maiden.
  • (n.) A man who has not had sexual intercourse.
  • (n.) A female servant.
  • (n.) The female of a ray or skate, esp. of the gray skate (Raia batis), and of the thornback (R. clavata).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, by day 21 after Giardia infection, mice with MAIDS failed to clear the Giardia cysts from the intestine while the control mice were completely free of cysts.
  • (2) Riyadh recently rejected demands from Manila for medical insurance for maids and for information on employers to be supplied before their departure.
  • (3) In his 1934 work English Journey, Priestley spoke of three Englands: the so-called "real, enduring England", which spoke to Boyle's bucolic "Jerusalem" opening with its maypoles and cricket, maids and mummery.
  • (4) It is the England that then prime minister John Major vowed would never vanish in a famous 1993 speech: “Long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and – as George Orwell said – ‘old maids bicycling to holy communion through the morning mist’.” Major was mining Orwell’s wartime essay The Lion and the Unicorn, whose tone was one of reassurance – the national culture will survive, despite everything: “The gentleness, the hypocrisy, the thoughtlessness, the reverence for law and the hatred of uniforms will remain, along with the suet puddings and the misty skies.” Orwell and Major were both asserting the strength of a national culture at times when Britishness – for both men basically Englishness – was felt to be under threat from outside dangers (war, integration into Europe).
  • (5) Frequencies of prestimulation calcium-positive cells among both CD4+ and CD8+ cells in mice with MAIDS were significantly higher than those for uninfected mice.
  • (6) He was by this time married to Ethel, daughter of the Chichester Cathedral sacristan, and had already committed adultery with their maid-of-all-work Lizzie.
  • (7) • Where to stay: Ipanema Penthouse (three-bedroom flats from $250 a night, including maid service).
  • (8) In 2010 Liliane Peretz, a maid, who had worked for the couple for six years, took a case to the Israeli labour court alleging she had been humiliated and that the prime minister's wife had insisted she change her clothing during the day to remain hygienic.
  • (9) Recently, a murine retrovirus (LpBM5 MuLV), which induces immunodeficiency syndrome in mice, termed MAIDS, has been found to have several features similar to those seen in human acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).
  • (10) Lena Baker, a black maid, was executed in 1945 after being convicted in a one-day trial of killing her white employer.
  • (11) Although MAIDS and AIDS are not identical and are induced by retroviruses of different classes, the availability of such a model in an easily accessible small animal species, whose genetics is very sophisticated, may be instrumental in understanding the pathogenesis of AIDS if some of the cellular and molecular affected pathways are common in both diseases.
  • (12) The types of food presented were significantly associated with the nationality of the maid.
  • (13) One company spokesman points out that otherwise "these women would be in the fields, in ship-breaking or shrimp farming, working as maids".
  • (14) You need to be very careful who you let in, that's why it's very important to have a maid.
  • (15) When you tire of that, you can pay Candy Fruit Refresh maids to clean your ears – or even just talk to you.
  • (16) Penetrance of resistance to disease associated with expression of H-2Dd was markedly influenced by MHC genes mapping to the left of H-2D and by non-MHC loci such that some strains bearing this gene were highly susceptible to MAIDS.
  • (17) The variables with a significant coefficient of association with early termination of breast feeding were maternal education, past experience with breast feeding, help of a maid, help with housework provided by a relative, breast feeding orientation during prenatal care and encouragement from the husband.
  • (18) The maid, Monika, "the prime originator" of Freud's neurosis, seduced him, chastised him, and taught him of hell.
  • (19) Perhaps Mrs Patmore would get her hand stuck in the new electric mixer, or footmen Alfred and Jimmy's rivalry would come to a head with some gloves-off fisticuffs – certainly not the brutal rape of lady's maid and viewers' favourite Anna Bates .
  • (20) The corporation said the third series of the show would see Robin Hood return "older and tougher" and "hellbent on revenge" following the murder of Maid Marian by Gisborne and the failure of the Sheriff of Nottingham, played by Keith Allen, to kill Prince John.

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