domestic servant

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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

At work, a domestic servant might be expected to cook and clean, while tending her employer’s children, making the beds and washing the clothes.

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

She was a girl of eighteen, employed as a domestic servant at Aldermanbury, and in 1753, disappeared for four weeks.

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