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单词 dairymaid
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Definition of dairymaid in English:

dairymaid

noun ˈdɛːrɪmeɪdˈdɛriˌmeɪd
archaic
  • A woman employed in a dairy.

    〈古〉牛奶场女工

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Often listed with the number of ploughs, it has been assumed that most would have worked as ploughmen, domestic servants and dairymaids.
    • Buttermilk was drunk in N. Europe throughout the Middle Ages; and in Britain it was for many centuries a ‘perk’ of shepherds and dairymaids.
    • Later, while working as a dairymaid on a prosperous farm, in a beautiful summer, she becomes blissfully engaged to Angel Clare, a clergyman's son.
    • A farmyard suggested in her mind a scene of cheerful bustle, with churns and flails and smiling dairymaids, and teams of horses drinking knee-deep in duck-crowded ponds.
    • The Venables' former neighbour, who was a dairymaid, still referred to the part of the house where he plied his trade as ‘the shop’.

Definition of dairymaid in US English:

dairymaid

nounˈderēˌmādˈdɛriˌmeɪd
archaic
  • A woman employed in a dairy.

    〈古〉牛奶场女工

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A farmyard suggested in her mind a scene of cheerful bustle, with churns and flails and smiling dairymaids, and teams of horses drinking knee-deep in duck-crowded ponds.
    • Buttermilk was drunk in N. Europe throughout the Middle Ages; and in Britain it was for many centuries a ‘perk’ of shepherds and dairymaids.
    • Often listed with the number of ploughs, it has been assumed that most would have worked as ploughmen, domestic servants and dairymaids.
    • The Venables' former neighbour, who was a dairymaid, still referred to the part of the house where he plied his trade as ‘the shop’.
    • Later, while working as a dairymaid on a prosperous farm, in a beautiful summer, she becomes blissfully engaged to Angel Clare, a clergyman's son.
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