CHAMBERMAID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chambermaid mean? 

• CHAMBERMAID (noun)
  The noun CHAMBERMAID has 1 sense:

1. a maid who is employed to clean and care for bedrooms (now primarily in hotels)

  Familiarity information: CHAMBERMAID used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHAMBERMAID (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A maid who is employed to clean and care for bedrooms (now primarily in hotels)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

chambermaid; fille de chambre

Hypernyms ("chambermaid" is a kind of...):

amah; housemaid; maid; maidservant (a female domestic)

 Context examples 

She dreaded lest the chambermaid had been mistaken.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

When the chambermaid tapped at my door at eight o'clock, and informed me that my shaving-water was outside, I felt severely the having no occasion for it, and blushed in my bed.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And if it be found that these nurses ever presume to entertain the girls with frightful or foolish stories, or the common follies practised by chambermaids among us, they are publicly whipped thrice about the city, imprisoned for a year, and banished for life to the most desolate part of the country.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

A waiter showed me into the coffee-room; and a chambermaid introduced me to my small bedchamber, which smelt like a hackney-coach, and was shut up like a family vault.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Accordingly, when she retired at night, she asked the chambermaid whether Pemberley were not a very fine place? what was the name of its proprietor? and, with no little alarm, whether the family were down for the summer?

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I was still painfully conscious of my youth, for nobody stood in any awe of me at all: the chambermaid being utterly indifferent to my opinions on any subject, and the waiter being familiar with me, and offering advice to my inexperience.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The girl who was with him got into the papers too because her arm was broken—she was one of the chambermaids in the Santa Barbara Hotel.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)