dairymaid
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- noun
- /ˈdɛəriˌmeɪd/
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- He opened his lively show on Tuesday with a red latex pencil skirt, a sleek ivory wool pantsuit, and dairymaid lace.
Examples
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You're not a dairymaid, are you?
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So maybe I'd be a dairymaid?
Blog text (24) -
A seventeen-year-old English dairymaid named Molly Walsh is accused of stealing her Lordship's milk and escapes certain death because she can read.
Academic text (2002) -
Locke writes, "you may as soon hope to have all the day-laborers and tradesmen, the spinsters and dairymaids, perfect mathematicians, as to have them perfect in ethics" by discovering moral truth through their own reasoning.
Academic text (2002) -
The matter was taken from a sore on the hand of a dairymaid, who was infected by her master's cows, and it was inserted, on the 14th of May, 1796, into the arm of the boy by means of two superficial incisions, barely penetrating the cutis, each about half an inch long.
Academic text (1996) -
When barn walls aren't available, he nails the announcement on trees, pigsties, benches, farmhouses, grain silos, or chalets; if, in the last case, he happens to disturb a dairymaid, waking her from her sleep.
Academic text (2007) -
The dairymaid skillfully churned fresh cream to make butter every morning.
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As a dairymaid, she took great pride in caring for the cows and ensuring the milk was of the highest quality.
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In the old farmhouse, the dairymaid spent her days milking cows and making delicious cheese.
Synonyms
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A woman who milks cows and works in a dairy
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A person who churns cream to make butter
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A person or company that makes cheese
A woman who works in a dairy making and selling milk products
How Senior
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Dairymaid comes from two simple words: dairy, a place for 'milk' and foods like butter and cheese, and maid, meaning 'a young woman' or helper. So a dairymaid is a woman who works in a dairy, milking cows and making butter or cheese.