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dairymaid

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dair·y·maid  (dâr-md)
n.
A woman or girl who works in a dairy.
dairymaid
Noun
Brit, Austral & NZ (formerly) a woman employed to milk cows
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Noun1.dairymaiddairymaid - a woman who works in a dairy
milkmaid
farm worker, farmhand, field hand, fieldhand - a hired hand on a farm
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Our dairymaid here is the farmer's second daughter.
The Woman in White by Collins, Wilkie View in context
He listened, too, to the ballads sung by Peggy, the dairymaid, and to the wild music of the blind harper, Turlogh O'Carolan, the last Irish minstrel.
English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context
And as for staying tea, I can't hear of it; for there's this dairymaid, now she knows she's to be married, turned Michaelmas, she'd as lief pour the new milk into the pig-trough as into the pans.
Silas Marner by Eliot, George View in context
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