parlormaid
- n a maid in a private home whose duties are to care for the parlor and the table and to answer the door
- Moore replied: "Shakespeare uses it and my parlormaid uses it, and an idiom which Shakespeare and my parlormaid use is good enough for me.
- Not even the excellent performance of one Edith King, or the dramatic disclosures made by a female detective who had been disguised throughout as "Belinda, a parlormaid," could .
- A little, brown-eyed, onetime parlormaid was making Englishmen sit up take notice last week.