What's the difference between maidservant and waitress?

Maidservant


Definition:

  • (n.) A female servant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) What made Dreyer's childhood emotionally arid by most accounts was lack of familial affection, partly motivated by his real mother, Josefina Nilsson, a Swedish maidservant, having failed to leave the Dreyers any money for child support.
  • (2) Compare that to how Indian maidservants – the aayahs and the bhaiyas – live.
  • (3) She remembers being, at the age of around 12, evacuated to the Cotswolds, where the 16-year-old maidservant at the vicarage got pregnant and drowned herself in the village pond (something similar happens in A Dark-Adapted Eye ).
  • (4) The living people revealed the painted people behind them like actors in the same performance, and flashing up before me was a little princess, her young maidservants and the artist himself, all gathered in a pool of sunlight below a heavy volume of shadow that instantly sets the tenor of the scene.

Waitress


Definition:

  • (n.) A female waiter or attendant; a waiting maid or waiting woman.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He was also convicted of groping a girl aged about eight who had sought his autograph at a public event in Portsmouth, and touching a teenage waitress during the filming of a TV show in Cambridge.
  • (2) In Skipton, 20-year-old Alice Keirle had taken a 90-minute detour to avoid road closures and get to her waitressing job at the Boathouse Cafe.
  • (3) Try the goulash, and don't forget to tip your waitress).
  • (4) I was a waitress and I served them breakfast at 5am and they were so kind to me.
  • (5) And on my first morning in Oregon my middle-aged waitress asked me why I was there, and, when I told her, said approvingly that her sister had taken her own life after six years in pain: "When she'd done it her face looked like she was 20."
  • (6) Steph Burningham , 21, who is doing a BA in graphic and communication design at Leeds University, used to have a Saturday job as a waitress but now runs her own freelance web-design business.
  • (7) An injured Guatemalan waitress, she said, was kidnapped as soon as she returned across the bridge.
  • (8) Tales of tips to hostesses and waitresses of £50,000 also abounded.
  • (9) David Cameron was given a table at the back last year, largely because the waitress didn't recognise him.
  • (10) The other costumes on the top rail are a pink cowgirl outfit, a pink waitress costume, a pink and purple superhero costume and a "hair stylist" tabard, in pink with purple trim, complete with plastic comb, mirror, scissors and hairdryer.
  • (11) Waitresses at the Koryo Hotel in the North Korean capital dressed up in sparkly traditional Korean dresses and decorated the lobby with balloons.
  • (12) The waitress puts two more Primus down on the table.
  • (13) He was pretty much working as a waitress in a cocktail bar when we met him.
  • (14) He claimed that A Raisin in the Sun, written while Hansberry made a living as a waitress and cashier, "put more of the truth of black people's lives on the stage than any other play in the entire history of theatre".
  • (15) For this tale of a young waitress with an insouciant approach to haircuts, garden gnomes, and life, Craig Lucas supplies the book, Daniel Messé and Nathan Tyse the music and lyrics.
  • (16) At the end of their meal the group stiffed the waitress, flushed the check and ran away yelling something about Obamacare.
  • (17) Bow-tied waitresses in miniskirts deliver high-ball rums to men in suits while heavily-painted women sip champagne from their positions on the sidelines.
  • (18) Marisol was a topless waitress before drugs fried her brain, Becky was a nurse, despite being raped at 14, before she killed someone and was jailed, and another man was a serious gang banger.
  • (19) Click here to view Waitress Trudie takes a decidedly extreme course of action when faced with another Christmas without a boyfriend.
  • (20) The entire team is good," a waitress who professed to be a football fan said.

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