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• n  a female domestic

• He seeks tolerance for a lovelorn housemaid left with a war baby, lashes a war profiteer who forces his attentions on her, agitates the lady of the manor hitherto accustomed to .
• Basically, all that happens in the movie is that Vermeer (Firth) entices his pretty, largely silent new housemaid (Johansson) into posing for the eponymous painting, while his .
• Late one night last July, testified the housemaid, she heard screams near the Finch garage.

• maid
• maidservant
• amah

News & Articles

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• A dust-up over Latina roles in 'Devious Maids'
  In adapting the new Lifetime series about housemaids in Beverly Hills, Marc Cherry was worried about a backlash about perceived stereotypes. Eva Longoria of 'Desperate Housewives' supported him in his project.
  June 8, 2013 - Los Angeles Times
• Maid is theft suspect
  A local housemaid found herself in a dirty spot after police arrested her for allegedly taking $1,500 and a gold necklace from a Northwest Laredo home.
  June 7, 2013 - Laredo Morning Times

Quotes

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• Margaret Thatcher in guardian.co.uk
  In her memoirs, Thatcher recalled that when she sacked Lord Soames he gave her the feeling he had been "dismissed by the housemaid".
• Stephen Frears in Scotsman
  It was a tiny little story about a housemaid that got inflated into a big film,Frears said later.
• Eduardo Faleiro in Hindustan Times
  Many of the local people appear to consider a housemaid as a commodity to be used and abused at will. As a result, Pakistan has banned the export of maids a long time ago. Nepal banned it six years ago,Faleiro noted.