milkmaid
- n a woman who works in a dairy
- In the '40s and '50s, the bazooka buxomness of Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield marked a reaction against equality; here was the milkmaid as sultry pinup.
- Marian Marsh, 93, starlet of 1930s Hollywood who, in her short-lived career--she retired in 1942 at age 29--won acclaim for playing innocents, memorably the milkmaid turned diva .
- More than 40 women poets turn up, ranging from Georgiana Cavendish, the Duchess of Devonshire, to Anne Yearsley the milkmaid poet and other servant girls on both sides of the .