handmaiden
Example Sentences
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From the journals Metcalfe has surmised that Vivien, herself a brilliant literary scholar and teacher, had willfully lived out her marriage under Blundy’s shadow, the dutiful handmaiden to a literary eminence.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2025
They were joined by "handmaiden" Kaura Taylor, from Texas, who calls herself Asnat.
From BBC • Sep. 12, 2025
Sophia, the nurse, and Jacobo, the apprentice, and her handmaiden, Amelia.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 30, 2022
Indeed, debt relief has always been the handmaiden of debt itself.
From Slate • Aug. 25, 2022
The allegiances shifted: the handmaiden of chromatin was suddenly its queen.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
