(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.
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.