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

A former domestic servant, she had experienced the inequities of servitude firsthand, and she propelled herself to prominence by speaking out against them.

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 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

Had she been alone she would have run to Godalming or Hazelmere, and sought a situation as a domestic servant, but that was not possible to her now, cumbered with the child.

From The Broom-Squire by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)