domestic servant

Example Sentences

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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

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 wife, who had been a domestic servant, added to the family pot by taking in washing and, if able, helping at the big house when guests were there.

From The Sins of the Children A Novel by Hamilton, Cosmo