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domestic servant

NOUN
au pair
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He found himself working as a domestic servant being paid half of what he was told and sleeping on a floor.

From Barron's ● Feb. 16, 2026

So the women who might have gone out to be a domestic servant, not so many of them did.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 21, 2023

Lives Lived: As a domestic servant in South Africa, Myrtle Witbooi experienced the inequities of servitude firsthand.

From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2023

And he began his training in Liverpool from where he wrote regularly to Kitty Tombleson, a "domestic servant" from Froncysyllte, a stone's throw from his own family home.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2018

On the landing, outside the sitting-room, and double-bedded room, which his father occupies, Ann Packet, domestic servant, meets him with a light.

From Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 1 of 3) by Frederick William Robinson


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