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  • noun Plural form of maid.

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Examples

  • Jeph would never put a hand to what he called maids 'work, but Stead would sweep, or beat the butter, or draw the water, or chop wood, or hold the baby, and was always ready to help her, even though it hindered him from ever going out to fish, or play at base ball, or any of the other sports the village boys loved.

    Under the Storm Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

  • We should hire maids from a union to clean it up just to piss him off.

    Think Progress » TurboTax drops Glenn Beck, whose show has gone without ads for more than a month in the UK. 2010

  • The Dom Perignon was served by gypsies in French maids outfits and the MC took a bottle and held it high in the air.

    STRIKE A POSE by Donnàrd Ricardo Sturgis | Fiction | Futurismic 2005

  • When she heard what had caused the excitement she called the maids, intending to send one of them for Mr. Cameron.

    Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods Alice B. Emerson

  • I called the maids and they packed my trunk and grandmother's, and I had grandfather's valet pack his, and go and secure berths and tickets, and learn about trains, and I got everything ready, even to the ambulance and doctor; but I waited until morning to tell them.

    The Harvester 1911

  • I called the maids and they packed my trunk and grandmother's, and I had grandfather's valet pack his, and go and secure berths and tickets, and learn about trains, and I got everything ready, even to the ambulance and doctor; but I waited until morning to tell them.

    The Harvester Gene Stratton-Porter 1893

  • The new wine gladdening the maids is peculiar to this passage.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • The hanging of Penelope’s twelve maids is indeed a disturbing detail in The Odyssey, and the way in which this book explores it is very interesting.

    Archive 2007-05-01 2007

  • The hanging of Penelope’s twelve maids is indeed a disturbing detail in The Odyssey, and the way in which this book explores it is very interesting.

    The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood 2007

  • One of her maids was a Swiss girl who had left the man she loved behind in Switzerland.

    Archive 2009-06-01 elena maria vidal 2009

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