housemaiden
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "The few rooms that were shewn were thronged by a hot crew, who had each to pay some toll to a virago of a housemaiden at each several door."
- "The Queen was in good spirits, discoursing with her usual volubility to all, and indifferently on every subject; for she was as able to discuss a knotty point with a divine as to teach her housemaidens a new stitch in needle work."
- ""Are you sure you're feeling all right, housemaiden?" A maiden of King Aldrik's house—not quite a servant, but not quite a ward, either."
- "Nor could he tell me anything when I questioned him concerning his haveage; which I did upon report that he was courting my housemaiden Grace Pascoe, an honest good girl, whom I was loth to see waste herself upon an unworthy husband."
- "Tell me, I pray, What has your housemaiden tidied away, She of the duster and broom?"
- "The archetypal image of the wife is that of the submissive, obedient housemaiden, whose sole obligation lies in looking after the welfare of her husband and her marriage."