Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A girl or woman who milks cows.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A woman who milks cows or is employed in a dairy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A woman who milks cows or is employed in the dairy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A girl or young woman who milked the cows on a farm before milking machines were introduced in the 20th century.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a woman who works in a dairy
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Examples
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Dressed in milkmaid outfits, they leap and tumble, twirl and bow, making evident Elkins 'and their own geeky admiration for the film.
Kris Wilton: The Sound of Music Like You've Never Seen It Kris Wilton 2010
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Dressed in milkmaid outfits, they leap and tumble, twirl and bow, making evident Elkins 'and their own geeky admiration for the film.
Kris Wilton: The Sound of Music Like You've Never Seen It Kris Wilton 2010
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For the occasion, she wore a colorful blouse and shorts, with her hair in milkmaid braids.
Helena Christensen Wears Short Shorts, Milkmaid Braids (PHOTOS, POLL) Hilary Moss 2010
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For the occasion, she wore a colorful blouse and shorts, with her hair in milkmaid braids.
Helena Christensen Wears Short Shorts, Milkmaid Braids (PHOTOS, POLL) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Dressed in milkmaid outfits, they leap and tumble, twirl and bow, making evident Elkins 'and their own geeky admiration for the film.
Kris Wilton: The Sound of Music Like You've Never Seen It Kris Wilton 2010
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For the occasion, she wore a colorful blouse and shorts, with her hair in milkmaid braids.
Helena Christensen Wears Short Shorts, Milkmaid Braids (PHOTOS, POLL) Hilary Moss 2010
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Dressed in milkmaid outfits, they leap and tumble, twirl and bow, making evident Elkins 'and their own geeky admiration for the film.
Kris Wilton: The Sound of Music Like You've Never Seen It Kris Wilton 2010
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So Blamire can scarcely be described as a milkmaid!
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I always have braids in my hair - small "milkmaid" braids.
CHIC IN PARIS 2009
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-- the "milkmaid," -- which would remove the term from the list of names for "child" in the proper sense of the word.
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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