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chambermaid

noun

Definition of chambermaid

as in housekeeper

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Recent Examples of chambermaid Prior soon learned that a job agency had sent the teenager, who couldn’t read, to seek employment at the house as a chambermaid. — Jenna Deep, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2025 According to a Physics Today article that delved into her background, her father was a plumber and her mother worked part time as a hotel chambermaid. — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Feb. 2025 It’s based on the true story of a Jewish child in 1850s Italy who was secretly baptized by a chambermaid and then abducted by the papal police and raised Catholic. — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Dec. 2024 Her follow-up project, The Hotel (1981), saw Calle assuming the role of chambermaid at a Venetian inn. — airmail.news, 26 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for chambermaid

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Noun

The great New Zealand actor Rachel House, as Chrissie’s housekeeper, has been tasked with bringing a discordantly comedic note by playing the character as overtly resentful of Klara’s arrival.

— Alison Willmore, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2026
Jude’s modern twist on Octave Mirbeau’s novel follows Gianina (Ana Dumitrașcu), a Romanian migrant working as a live-in housekeeper and nanny for a wealthy family in present-day Bordeaux.

— Katherine Brodsky, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026

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He is surrounded by a parade of savvier comic archetypes — from his urbane, happily rational brother, Beralde (Dylan Baker), to his smart-aleck maid, Toinette (Rachel Bloom, giving eternal side-eye) — who have to either evade or manipulate him.

— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2026
He’s constantly getting tangled in its mechanical pop-up footrest; his maid, Toinette (Rachel Bloom, surprisingly unshowy here), must unstick him.

— New York Times, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of maid

Noun

The enterprising maidservant followed him into a shop.

— John Swansburg, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025
Julia, who was already pregnant with her and Henry’s second child, is forced to work as a maidservant for the reprehensible Lord Lovat (Tony Curran), who happens to be the father of Brian.

— Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025

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