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Noun
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Not so for designer Fawn Galli, who, after spending a year in the City of Lights as an au pair in her 20s, has just put the finishing touches on her dream Parisian apartment.—
Laura May Todd,
Architectural Digest,
17 Mar. 2025 -
But when Chris hires au pair Sandrine (Makowski), the young French woman triggers an unsettling shift in the household.—
Georg Szalai,
The Hollywood Reporter,
21 Feb. 2025
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Other fan-familiar characters include Murtagh Fitzgibbons Fraser (Jamie’s godfather and Brian’s cousin, played by Rory Alexander) and Mrs. Fitz (Ellen’s lady-in-waiting and Murtagh’s mother, played by Sally Messham).—
Tony Maglio,
IndieWire,
16 Jan. 2025
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But while many ladies-in-waiting suffered as their queens fell out of favor, Jane has the distinction of being the only one to lose her actual head.—
Eva Wolchover,
New York Times,
2 Jan. 2025
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Prior soon learned that a job agency had sent the teenager, who couldn’t read, to seek employment at the house as a chambermaid.—
Jenna Deep,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 Mar. 2025
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Her follow-up project, The Hotel (1981), saw Calle assuming the role of chambermaid at a Venetian inn.—
airmail.news,
airmail.news,
26 Oct. 2024
Noun
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Second of all, these people here, everybody is like a nursemaid so to speak.—
Sean Neumann,
People.com,
16 Jan. 2025
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Soon after, tensions between the couple boiled over and Dr. Ruxton murdered his wife and the household’s nursemaid, Mary.—
Sean Neumann,
People.com,
8 Dec. 2024
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The attendant was not warm or gentle, but her assertive touch felt motherly, even sensible.—
Anna Haines,
Vogue,
9 Apr. 2025
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Businesses can quickly hire them part-time to help with a sudden increase in demand without needing all the paperwork, benefits and expenses attendant with a full-time employee.—
Jack Kelly,
Forbes.com,
6 Apr. 2025
Noun
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For example, housekeepers typically don't make as much as janitors.—
Alex Golden,
Axios,
1 Apr. 2025
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Things get serious when one of Tom’s housekeepers is swept up in the military dictatorship.—
Glenn Kenny,
New York Times,
27 Mar. 2025
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Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) After making her small screen debut aged eight, a 14-year-old Knightley entered the big leagues in George Lucas’s sci-fi epic, as a dutiful handmaiden to the pale-faced queen (Natalie Portman), who serves as her steely decoy.—
Radhika Seth,
Vogue,
26 Mar. 2025
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However, like the original, it’s also grounded in the paranoia, compromises, and drudgery that are the handmaidens of intelligence work.—
Andy Meek,
airmail.news,
23 Nov. 2024
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“Maid-in-waiting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maid-in-waiting. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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