housemaid
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Worse yet, hours after Felix’s departure, the Platters’ housemaid came down with the plague.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026
Bids of up to £4,000 had been expected for the one-page note, which is addressed to the head housemaid at Royal Lodge in Windsor and includes drawings of dogs, horses and children.
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2026
A red flag for sure, but it’s not long before Nina is practically loading a harpoon gun with red flags and firing them at her new housemaid, left and right.
From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2026
Her father was a printer’s assistant and her mother worked as a housemaid, giving her the insights she needed to write “Upstairs, Downstairs.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2025
But Mrs. Harrison had put an end to that yesterday, when a housemaid position at the manor had come available.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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You encounter them everywhere in Cairo - as workers in supermarkets or small grocery shops, as housemaids or as staff in restaurants.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2023
For these children, it’s hard to imagine a time when Wong, then the country’s most celebrated Asian American actress, was mostly relegated to playing villains or housemaids.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2022
Saudi Arabia faces perennial labor shortages and may offer jobs to Thai factory, construction and shipyard workers, electricians and machine operators, petroleum and natural gas technicians, hotel and health personnel, cooks, and housemaids.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 25, 2022
Rewind to England, hundreds of years earlier, where cooks and housemaids combined ingredients prone to spoilage with sugar, a thing that helps suffocate those thirsty microbes that make milk and unsalted butter go bad.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 17, 2018
In a few minutes, two housemaids entered the room, followed by Mandy and the rest of the servants.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
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