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"Chambermaids with caps on their teeth ... figments of their pressagents' imaginations."

From Time Magazine Archive

Chambermaids, leaving beds unmade, marched out of the dormitories at 9 o'clock one morning, were joined by most of the university's handymen.

From Time Magazine Archive

Chambermaids, who are paid by the month, receive absurdly low pay.

From The Itching Palm A Study of the Habit of Tipping in America by Scott, William R

Very well, Mrs. Sartoris," said Sylla; "then we will consider that settled; you do the Ladies and I do the Chambermaids.

From Belles and Ringers by Smart, Hawley

Mean time I assure you, ’tis a fine Sight to see them going to the Queen’s Apartment, or running along the Gallery, with at least forty Attendants in their Train, including the Ladies and Chambermaids.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von