Maid

Maid

A maid, or housemaid or maidservant, is a female person employed in domestic service. Although now usually found only in the most wealthy of households, in the Victorian era domestic service was the second largest category of employment in England and Wales, after agricultural work.

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Famous quotes containing the word maid:

    “No more but e’en a woman, and commanded
    By such poor passion as the maid that milks
    And does the meanest chares.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    ““Though logic-choppers rule the town,
    And every man and maid and boy
    Has marked a distant object down,
    An aimless joy is a pure joy....””
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.”
    —Edna Ferber (1887–1968)