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• n  a female domestic
• n  an unmarried girl (especially a virgin)

• Today's maid shortage is a scarcity of financial plenty.
• Two weeks into the war in Iraq, the maid realized something was up when her boss, Saddam Hussein's nephew, told her to bone up on a Tikriti accent so that she wouldn't attract .
• The maid says she saw a guard rip off the woman's white wedding dress and lock her, crying, in a bathroom.

• maidservant
• housemaid
• amah
• maiden

News & Articles

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• Harrell, Veras keep good times rolling
  Box score Jose Veras’ wife made a cellphone recording of his ninth-inning jumbotron introduction at Minute Maid Park, but the Astros’ closer has never seen the video. Which means the 32-year-old righthander still hasn’t viewed the electric mixture of blue-and-silver lightning strikes, a heavy metal-like “Veras” logo, and the blasting of AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck” that accompany his slow journey ...
  June 16, 2013 - Houston Chronicle
• Maid of Mist dock repaired, open again
  Crews worked for hours to repair the Maid of the Mist dock on the American side Saturday. Around 3 p.m., the attraction was running its normal schedule.
  June 15, 2013 - WIVB Buffalo
• Pitch, Hit & Run finalists compete at Minute Maid
  Baseball's future was on display Saturday morning at Minute Maid Park, as 22 boys and girls between the ages of 7-14 participated in the Astros' championship of Major League Baseball's Pinch, Hit & Run competition.
  June 15, 2013 - Houston Astros

Quotes

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• Miguel Tejada in International Herald Tribune
  I was in Houston last week and I've played in Minute Maid Park in the All-Star game, so I think I'll do great in that city,Tejada said.
• Andy Pettitte in Forbes
  I know he's going to be down here and we'll play golf together. I know he's going to be over at their camp, at Astros' camp,Pettitte said. "He threw at Minute Maid for an hour or something the other day. If I threw for an hour right now, I...
• Cate Blanchett in AFP
  Blanchett joked that "I always wanted to be Robin Hood rather than Maid Marian but the part was taken."