Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A general name for a waiting-woman or lady's-maid.
- noun Sometimes written as a common noun, without a capital.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A lady's waiting-maid.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I love mixing up non - booze cocktails, so come ask aunt abigail if you are so inclined.
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Oh, and after I'm done, I will give her praise because of how well she is doing because I know she is trying her hardest to do the right thing. abigail
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My abigail will have to go down to Berkshire at once.
Gatlinburg 2010
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Maidie, meanwhile, ensconced in the Hope family coach with her abigail in attendance, was congratulating herself on the outcome of her mission.
Gatlinburg 2010
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For want of something to distract her mind, she had been engaged, when Maidie returned with her abigail in tow, in collecting together those of Maidie's belongings that were scattered about the bedchamber they had shared at her insistence, for she could not reconcile it with her duty to allow her charge to sleep alone in the chamber of a public inn in the heart of the capital.
Gatlinburg 2010
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Already he discerned an air of bustle about the house, for Lady Hester's abigail was hurrying up the stairs, accompanied by one of the maids, and the stout housekeeper, pausing only to bob a curtsy to her master as he came out of the parlour, set her foot on the bottom stair and began to puff her way up.
Gatlinburg 2010
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I hesitated between love and duty for a full second, and then "The hell with Palmerston, let him wait!" cries I, and was plunging for the bed before the abigail was fairly out of the room.
Fiancée 2010
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Rising again, she directed the abigail how to pack her mistress's clothing.
Gatlinburg 2010
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I have not been able to get his Harry Potter robes or glasses off of him abigail i want them!
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treeseed commented on the word abigail
Abigail Beecher, 1964, Freddie Cannon
February 9, 2008
yarb commented on the word abigail
The addition of two jolly fellows just come from a good supper, could not be unwelcome to abigails, and to the abigails of actresses too...
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 3 ch. 5
September 13, 2008