serving-woman

Gender role shifts are more pronounced in The Dream, in which a female aristocrat and her serving-woman prove to be far more intrepid, energetic, and resourceful than the macho military protagonist.

The Liberating and Debilitating Imagination in Joanna Baillie’s Orra and The Dream 2008

I would have accepted a boon from one who was giving me over a prey to detraction and to ruin, at the instigation of a canting priest and a meddling serving-woman?

The Abbot 2008

Laocoon — Laocoon the brother of Oeneus, though not by the same mother, for a serving-woman bare him; him, now growing old, Oeneus sent to guard his son: thus Meleagrus, still a youth, entered the bold band of heroes.

The Argonautica 2008

She hadn't gotten more than a few cubits away, when another serving-woman, gray-haired, stopped her.

Ordermaster Modesitt, L. E. 2005

He stood on a chair in the sunshine, reaching up with a garland, whilst the serving-woman stood below, talking loudly.

Twilight in Italy 2003

So the room was empty, save for the landlady and her sewing, the staid, elderly villager to whom she was talking in the unbeautiful dialect, and the young serving-woman who was clearing away the plates and basins of the tramps and beggars.

Twilight in Italy 2003

The landlady called to the young serving-woman, and in a classic German severity of disapprobation they were led up the stone stairs to their room.

Twilight in Italy 2003

Then, staggering under the weighty panniers, she and another serving-woman carried them down to the stableyard, where the pack-animals would be loaded on the morrow.

Conan The Magnificent Jordan, Robert 1986

Caris cast a nervous glance around the eating house of the Bashful Unicorn as a stout, red-faced serving-woman in a greasy apron brought a platter of stew and breads to the table.

The Silent Tower Hambly, Barbara 1986

Then, staggering under the weighty panniers, she and another serving-woman carried them down to the stableyard, where the pack-animals would be loaded on the morrow.

Conan The Magnificent Jordan, Robert 1984