A maid who attended to the personal needs of her mistress.
〈主史〉贴身侍女
her great-grandmother had never dressed herself without the help of a lady's maid
Example sentencesExamples
In the upper left-hand corner a lady's maid hands her mistress a fan and a revolver to complete her attire.
Realizing that ‘there was a lot more to being a lady's maid than I had thought ’, she learns that ‘there was slips and stays and shifts and hose and garters, petticoats and drawers’.
Mary Ann was a lady's maid and she married John on 14 September 1806.
Visiting valets and lady's maids know their place and take on the names of their employers.
Gates thinks that she may have been Jane's replacement as lady's maid, serving the Wheeler household in 1856 and escaping the following year.
Synonyms
attendant, retainer
Definition of lady's maid in US English:
lady's maid
noun
historical
A maid who attended to the personal needs of her mistress.
〈主史〉贴身侍女
her great-grandmother had never dressed herself without the help of a lady's maid
Example sentencesExamples
Mary Ann was a lady's maid and she married John on 14 September 1806.
Realizing that ‘there was a lot more to being a lady's maid than I had thought ’, she learns that ‘there was slips and stays and shifts and hose and garters, petticoats and drawers’.
Visiting valets and lady's maids know their place and take on the names of their employers.
In the upper left-hand corner a lady's maid hands her mistress a fan and a revolver to complete her attire.
Gates thinks that she may have been Jane's replacement as lady's maid, serving the Wheeler household in 1856 and escaping the following year.