maid-in-waiting

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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

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 Blewett, Jean

Ye both mind that I was but a little lass when thy grandmother, the Lady Elizabeth Lennox, did take me to train as her maid-in-waiting.

From A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales by Rives, Amélie

On the way he meets a fair maid-in-waiting, and the relation between her and the traveler, developed here and later, is inspired directly by Yorick’s connection with the fair fille de chambre.

From Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century by Hewett-Thayer, Harvey W. (Harvey Waterman)