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maid-of-all-work

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maid-of-all-work [ˌmeɪdəvˈɔːlˌwɜːk] Nchica f para todo


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A servant in a poor family should have been impudent; a maid-of-all-work would have wondered when I was going to know my own mind.
When his confidential maid-of-all-work, the aged Elspeth, tried to insinuate that the whole thing might be a hoax--
Miss Cornelia disdained to reply and turned instead to Susan Baker, a grim-faced, kind-hearted elderly spinster of the Glen, who had been installed as maid-of-all-work at the little house for some weeks.
 
 
 
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