female servant
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffemaleandservant
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female
adjective
uk/ˈfiː.meɪl/us/ˈfiː.meɪl/
belonging or relating to the sex that can give birth to young or ...
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servant
noun
uk/ˈsɜː.vənt/us/ˈsɝː.vənt/
a person who is employed in another person's house, doing jobs such as cooking and cleaning, especially in ...
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(Definition offemaleandservantfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoffemale servant
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Nofemaleservantis named in the debt entries, but women are cited as such more generally in these court rolls.
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Contrast the position of thefemaleservantwith the position of the employed male person.
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Through ruse and disguises, the prince and a trustyfemaleservantmanage to break up the relationship, resulting in two marriages.
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The woman often has afemaleservantwho serves as a matchmaker and mediates between the two.
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Perhaps because she noticed the presence of her surprised master, when thefemaleservantturned over in bed, her neck returned to normal.
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One legend tells of afemaleservanttaking a fancy to her house's kobold and asking to see him.
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One of hisfemaleservantpassed off his youngest son as her own, thereby ensuring the family name.
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Of the female servants, 88 per cent in 1861 and in 1870 were inmigrants as compared to only 52 per cent in 1879.
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This decision to concentrate the effort upon female servants may have been informed by the experience of the first phase of the campaign.
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To help her in her work she had female servants and daughters, and access to a young servant boy.
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The demand for female servants, who had other kinds of tasks, was not as dependent on harvest fluctuations.
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Female servants from a landless background had a higher mobility than those from a peasant background.
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Figure 6, however, indicates that the birth of an illegitimate child reduced the marriage prospects of female servants.
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However, they do show that very few female servants had savings greater than £10, which leaves open the question of dowries.
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However, being cheaper and more versatile in their working tasks, female servants generally outnumbered the males.
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Thisfemaleservantwas ordinary and other than the fact that she had a pale face, she was no different from an ordinary human, but her master dismissed her.
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