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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

Ms. Witbooi became a domestic servant in Cape Town at the age of 17 and launched her campaign a few years later.

From New York Times Jan. 25, 2023

Also living with them was a "general domestic" servant - a 17-year-old girl called Frances Hinds, who had been born in Hampstead.

From BBC Jan. 6, 2022

The second domestic servant that demands a notice at our hands is the Jhee, or maid-servant of the family.

From The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal by Bose, Shib Chunder




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