Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A maid or female servant who dresses food; an assistant to a cook.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A female servant or maid who dresses provisions and assists the cook.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun dated A female servant who dresses provisions and assists the cook.

Etymologies

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cook +‎ maid

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Examples

  • Then she added, ‘If, however, my husband return yet again to the cookmaid and lie with her, I will restore thee to thy lost place in my favours.’

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • So far concerning him; but as regards the cookmaid, she took the fish and cleansed them and set them in the frying pan, basting them with oil till one side was dressed.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Miss H., but his a hilliterit cookmaid fit to set at a fashnable table?

    The diary of C. Jeames De La Pluche, Esq., with his letters 2006

  • Miss H., but his a hilliterit cookmaid fit to set at a fashnable table?

    Burlesques 2006

  • “Perhaps he may find something between a princess and a cookmaid.”

    The Claverings 2005

  • “I hope, for your sake, he may not — neither a princess nor a cookmaid, nor anything between.”

    The Claverings 2005

  • But such men as he are often in the way by marrying some cookmaid at last.

    The Claverings 2005

  • The cookmaid lay in a little apartment contiguous to the kitchen; and whether disturbed by these horrible tales of apparitions, or titillated by the savoury steams that issued from the punch-bowl, she made a virtue of necessity, or appetite, and dressing herself in the dark, suddenly appeared before them to the no small perturbation of both.

    The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves 2004

  • I was able to do but very little service wherever I was to go, except it was to run of errands and be a drudge to some cookmaid, and this they told me of often, which put me into a great fright; for I had a thorough aversion to going to service, as they called it

    The Fortunes And Misfortunes Of The Famous Moll Flanders Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 1923

  • O no, sir, none in the least; yet I don’t know how; our Bridget, the cookmaid, is not very communicative upon these occasions.

    Act the Second 1909

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