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Parlourmaid

noun

A maid in a private home whose duties are to care for the parlor and the table and to answer the door. Synonym: parlormaid.

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"Parlourmaid" Quotes from Famous Books

... who had the art of saying the most simple things as if they were profoundly confidential secrets,—'My dear, my parlourmaid is really an excellent cook, and I shall rely upon her if Martha really goes. But she is limited, very limited, and entrees and savouries are the two things in which I cannot entirely trust her. I must, therefore, find some dish which is well within ...

— A Duet • A. Conan Doyle

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... game. I didn't see the person I risked seeing, but I had been ready to take my chance of her." She addressed herself to Maisie; she had encircled her more closely. "I asked for YOU, my dear, but I saw no one but a dirty parlourmaid. She was red in the face with the great things that, as she told me, had just happened in the absence of her mistress; and she luckily had the sense to have made out the place to which Sir Claude had come to ...

— What Maisie Knew • Henry James

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Words linked to "Parlourmaid" : maid, maidservant, housemaid, amah