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Dairymaid

noun
1.
A woman who works in a dairy.  Synonym: milkmaid.






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"Dairymaid" Quotes from Famous Books



... you are to recollect, was only in process of reformation, and still retained something of the Derbyshire dairymaid, gave me a little clandestine pinch on the arm just ...
— Uncle Silas - A Tale of Bartram-Haugh • J.S. Le Fanu

... At first I was delighted with the thought of unlimited milk, bought a churn and generally prepared to enjoy being a dairymaid. I soon found out my mistake. Poppy was "drying up" just as the vegetation was. The Finn woman who milked her morning and night, and who seemed to be in much closer sympathy with her than I ever hoped to be, ...
— The Smiling Hill-Top - And Other California Sketches • Julia M. Sloane

... "The dairymaid; a stout girl, who has never had a day's illness before. I don't suppose you know her. There was some trouble with her. She would not take any medicine; would not do anything she ought to have done, and the consequence is that the ...
— Elster's Folly • Mrs. Henry Wood



Words linked to "Dairymaid" :   farmhand, farm worker, field hand, fieldhand



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