maid-in-waiting

They’re framing Queen Anne and her maid-in-waiting inside of that window, and her robe is sort of lifted up on the frame.

From Washington Post

Eurykleia retired to her quarters for the night, and then Eurynome, as maid-in-waiting, lighted her lord and lady to their chamber with bright brands.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

This want was only partially supplied by the moral Court treatise, which was ostensibly written for the courtier and not the maid-in-waiting.

From John Lyly by John Dover Wilson

Sweet Anne!" cried he, dropping upon his knee before the maid-in-waiting, "thou hast saved me from despair.

From The Fifth of November A Romance of the Stuarts by Charles S. Bentley

Each maid-in-waiting is most fair— Note well the graces she unfurls— The winds have tossed her fluffy hair, And left it in a thousand curls.

From The Cornflower, and Other Poems by Jean Blewett

One of Mary's maids-in-waiting had been taught by the same writing master as Mary, and as a result her handwriting was almost indistinguishable from Mary's.

From Time Magazine Archive

Owing to the former it became erudite, polished, precise, meet indeed for the "parleyings" of courtiers and maids-in-waiting; but it was to the latter that it owed its essentials.

From John Lyly by John Dover Wilson

Then a few years later he married one of Queen Philippa's maids-in-waiting.

From English Literature for Boys and Girls by H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth) Marshall

She had at least fifteen maids-in-waiting about her and had set up quite a court.

From Adventures in Swaziland The Story of a South African Boer by Owen Rowe O'Neil

Thus we have those groups of pages, of maids-in-waiting, of shepherds, of deities, etc., which are so characteristic of Lyly's plays.

From John Lyly by John Dover Wilson