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  • noun Plural form of domestic.

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Examples

  • Men would routinely beat their wives and the Police were not interested in 'domestics'.

    The Magistrate And Crime Figures Laban 2005

  • Men would routinely beat their wives and the Police were not interested in 'domestics'.

    Archive 2005-05-01 Laban 2005

  • I'm saying, as a descendent of one of those cultures and of individuals who were domestics from the south, imho, the voice wasn't authentic and I cannot praise it.

    Homework for White Folks 2010

  • And both of these, or all three calls, both events were classified as the domestics, which is, you know, pretty generic for all types of domestics.

    CNN Transcript Mar 30, 2007 2007

  • She had before sought secrecy, that no witness might be present; now she calls her domestics, that, by this kind of prejudging of the case, she may condemn the youth before her husband.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

  • “Do you call the domestics in an American household ‘slaves’?

    Chapter XI 1917

  • "Do you call the domestics in an American household 'slaves'?"

    The Portrait of a Lady 1881

  • "Do you call the domestics in an American household 'slaves'?"

    The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 Henry James 1879

  • The appearance of these military domestics is described in the

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • We may call the class in question "domestics" -- remembering, of course, that they were not quite domestic servants in the ordinary sense.

    Russia Donald Mackenzie Wallace 1880

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