housemaidens

Noun

housemaiden (plural housemaidens)

1. Synonym of lady-in-waiting.
   • The few rooms that were shewn were thronged by a hot crew, who had each to pay some toll to a virago of a housemaiden at each several door.1846 August, “Hampton Court, Past and Present”, in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, volume XXXIV, number CC, London: G. W. Nickisson, […], page 180, column 2

   Synonyms:

   lady-in-waiting

2. Synonym of housemaid.
   • Tell me, I pray, What has your housemaiden tidied away, She of the duster and broom?1914, Lewis Campbell, Memorials in Verse and Prose, page 10

   Synonyms:

   housemaid