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waiting maid

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Noun

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waiting maid (plural waiting maids)

  1. (historical) A lady's female servant.
    Synonym: maid-in-waiting
    • 1788, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary: A Fiction[1]:
      As she was sometimes obliged to be alone, or only with her French waiting-maid, she sent to the metropolis for all the new publications [] .
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