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

Hattie McDaniel became the first black actress to be nominated for, and win, an Academy Award for her role as domestic servant Mammy.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2020

Menial, mē′ni-al, adj. of or pertaining to a train of servants: doing servile work: low.—n. a domestic servant: one performing servile work: a person of servile disposition.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various