chambermaid

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Recent Examples of chambermaid Sandra points out that chambermaids and barmaids are often powerless to resist their employers’ advances and that the Americans’ less class-conscious but more consensual approach to coupling is more equitable. Chris Klimek, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2024 The second floor houses a Theater Room Museum where distinct outlines of sleeping bodies have been found in the dust on the beds — sightings that have been attributed to a former chambermaid. Lacey Latch, The Arizona Republic, 27 Apr. 2024 Meanwhile, the rakish Airk is making time with Dove (Ellie Bamber), a chambermaid ensnared in a messy, upstairs-downstairs love affair, as television chambermaids so often are. Joshua Alston, Variety, 30 Nov. 2022 This month, a clip went viral showing Sineenat outside the Grand Palace after the ceremonial changing of garments of the Emerald Buddha statue, bending down to accept paper tissues from a well-wisher, then tucking the unused tissue neatly back in the box like an earnest chambermaid. Shashank Bengali, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2020 See all Example Sentences for chambermaid 
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Noun
  • The adaptation will star Sweeney as Millie, a young woman on her last chance who becomes a housekeeper for the well-to-do couple Nina (Amanda Seyfried) and Andrew.
    Erin Strecker, IndieWire, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The housekeeper watched as the young couple began investing in houses around the area, renting them out and relying on the proceeds as their main source of income.
    Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • That said, this encounter between a morose Jamie and his sister’s housemaid, Mary McNab, is a meaningful one and bears including.
    Amy Wilkinson, Vulture, 23 Nov. 2024
  • Perhaps someone’s housemaid’s daughter works at the Arnold residence and saw Benedict Bridgerton calling, or maybe Eloise’s new best friend is one of Danbury’s casual chess competitors.
    Vulture Staff, Vulture, 21 June 2024
Noun
  • This corruption exists at all levels, from the courts and local police — which help poachers and traffickers avoid prosecution — to the guides, maids, contractors, and other service workers who get paid for information.
    Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Here, Angela Brown, CEO of Savvy Cleaner, a company that trains house cleaners and maids, shares her no-fail cleaning tips for how to treat stains and keep wall-to-wall carpeting looking its best.
    Jennifer Beck Goldblatt, Architectural Digest, 9 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • From Bessie’s spitfire frenemy, the charwoman Mrs. Grogan (a feisty Sarah Morris), to the blowsy, good-natured prostitute, Rosie Redmond (Anna Healy), the story conjures an entire community, then rips the tattered rug of their lives out from under them.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Here, a look back at the actor's prolific life and career in photos. 01 Michael Caine's Early Life Caine had a working-class upbringing: mother Ellen was a charwoman and father Maurice, a fish porter.
    Alex Apatoff, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2023
Noun
  • This helps explain why the maidservant was subjected to multiple inspections, with a succession of witnesses rooting around beneath Hall’s skirts and petticoats for firm proof.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
  • In 1627, a professional lace-maker named Thomasine Hall boarded a ship in England and arrived at Jamestown, Virginia, to become a maidservant in the household of a man named John Tyos.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • The female attendant on duty was kind enough to assist me by dragging the hose across my vehicle to fuel up.
    Ticked Off, Orlando Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Consider paying inside with the attendant, not outside at the pump.
    Fernanda Galan, Sacramento Bee, 13 Jan. 2025

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“Chambermaid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chambermaid. Accessed 29 Jan. 2025.

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