chambermaid

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Recent Examples of chambermaid Sandra points out that chambermaids and barmaids are often powerless to resist their employers’ advances and that the Americans’ less class-conscious but more consensual approach to coupling is more equitable. Chris Klimek, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2024 The second floor houses a Theater Room Museum where distinct outlines of sleeping bodies have been found in the dust on the beds — sightings that have been attributed to a former chambermaid. Lacey Latch, The Arizona Republic, 27 Apr. 2024 Meanwhile, the rakish Airk is making time with Dove (Ellie Bamber), a chambermaid ensnared in a messy, upstairs-downstairs love affair, as television chambermaids so often are. Joshua Alston, Variety, 30 Nov. 2022 This month, a clip went viral showing Sineenat outside the Grand Palace after the ceremonial changing of garments of the Emerald Buddha statue, bending down to accept paper tissues from a well-wisher, then tucking the unused tissue neatly back in the box like an earnest chambermaid. Shashank Bengali, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2020 See all Example Sentences for chambermaid 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chambermaid
Noun
  • The adaptation will star Sweeney as Millie, a young woman on her last chance who becomes a housekeeper for the well-to-do couple Nina (Amanda Seyfried) and Andrew.
    Erin Strecker, IndieWire, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The housekeeper watched as the young couple began investing in houses around the area, renting them out and relying on the proceeds as their main source of income.
    Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • According to the official logline, The Housemaid follows a struggling young woman named Millie (Sweeney) who eagerly accepts a job as a housemaid for a wealthy couple.
    Emily Blackwood, People.com, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Sweeney plays Millie, a struggling young woman who finds a fresh start as a housemaid to the wealthy and well-to-do couple Nina (Amanda Seyfried) and Andrew (Brandon Sklenar).
    Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 23 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • By the 1950s, the talented author who had worked with Langston Hughes and won a Guggenheim fellowship was struggling to make ends meet, working as a maid and taking other odd jobs.
    Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Jan. 2025
  • To escape the horrors of the Holocaust, Keleti, who was born in Budapest, hid out in Hungary by taking on a fake identity while working as a maid.
    Danielle Jennings, People.com, 2 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • From Bessie’s spitfire frenemy, the charwoman Mrs. Grogan (a feisty Sarah Morris), to the blowsy, good-natured prostitute, Rosie Redmond (Anna Healy), the story conjures an entire community, then rips the tattered rug of their lives out from under them.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Here, a look back at the actor's prolific life and career in photos. 01 Michael Caine's Early Life Caine had a working-class upbringing: mother Ellen was a charwoman and father Maurice, a fish porter.
    Alex Apatoff, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2023
Noun
  • This helps explain why the maidservant was subjected to multiple inspections, with a succession of witnesses rooting around beneath Hall’s skirts and petticoats for firm proof.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
  • In 1627, a professional lace-maker named Thomasine Hall boarded a ship in England and arrived at Jamestown, Virginia, to become a maidservant in the household of a man named John Tyos.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • The alleged flight attendant noted that users should keep in mind there are certain things that attendants can’t control — such as airline delays, the availability of onboard items and more.
    Ashley J. DiMella Fox News, Fox News, 28 Jan. 2025
  • For me, the in-seat service coupled with a bus attendant offering snacks and hot towels made the journey feel more like a movie theater experience than a commute.
    Aaraf Adam, Travel + Leisure, 28 Jan. 2025

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