What does servingwoman mean?
Servingwoman means A female servant..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A female servant..
[…]; and Cascorro courting Eulalia, the servingwoman, who was the very image of domesticity as she sat sewing seed pearls on a pair of gray gloves.
Sisly Milk-pail, servingwoman to Frankford.
The servingwoman glanced at her in surprise, and she found herself blushing.
The windows in the hall had to be kept closed because of the stench from the street, and each morning she had the servingwomen burn spices to perfume the air. […] A servingwoman stooped near the bed, carefully collecting fragments of china between her fingertips and transferring them to a tray.
Sarah, aged 26 / servingwoman
“This is beyond the beyond! To think that he can actually dismiss my own servingwomen! […]” […] He was handing a goblet of wine to the young servingwoman who was with him.
In the meanwhile we had a place with the other servingwomen, in the room behind the kitchen.
Kristín Ómarsdóttir’s collection focuses on an obscure, nearly forgotten servingwoman working in an old country inn.
Use servingwoman when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Servingwoman means A female servant..
Common synonyms include maidservant, servingmaid, womanservant.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[…]; and Cascorro courting Eulalia, the servingwoman, who was the very image of domesticity as she sat sewing seed pearls on a pair of gray gloves.
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