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maid

[mayd] / meɪd /


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There was a small kitchen, with a sign taped to the fridge: “Please clean up after yourself no maid service here!!!”

From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026

Sophie’s chosen family, like maid Hazel and Footman John, are as important as the Bridgerton clan.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

He frequently speaks about his humble beginnings as the son of a bartender and a hotel maid.

From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026

Swift did not have a traditional maid of honour, instead choosing her brother Austin as her man of honour.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

A young woman left the house where she worked as a maid and seamstress.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

“It also taught me a tremendous amount of humility. If your head ever got too big for itself, that you’re the owner’s son, and the maids didn’t show up, guess who’s making all the rooms?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

That proved a winning proposition for generations of working people, yielding middle class paychecks for bartenders, restaurant servers, casino dealers and maids.

From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2024

Almost all women in Ombada 19 and al-Thawara 29 are maids, or used to be maids, working for families in the wealthier parts of Khartoum, Omdurman and Bahri.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2023

Contemporary Indigenous Maya have few options but to work as construction workers, maids, and taxi drivers serving the 22 million people who arrive each year at the nearby #cancunairport.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2023

She pictures the maids in their quiet, mysterious cluster at the end of the patio, Altagracia with her hands in her lap.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez


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