The phrase "a pretty maid" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a young woman or girl who is attractive, often in a context related to domestic work or traditional roles.
Example: "At the village fair, everyone admired the charm of a pretty maid serving refreshments."
Alternatives: "an attractive girl" or "a lovely young woman."
After two Martinis apiece, we sat down in the dining room to an excellent lunch, served by a pretty maid called Lynn.
Nobbs, who dreams of setting up a small business, now sets her sights on a pretty maid (Mia Wasikowska) in a curiously sexless, businesslike manner.
Robbie Burns' poem "The Yellow, Yellow Yorlin'" gets its title from a Scottish name for the yellowhammer, which is given an obvious sexual connotation: I met a pretty maid, an' unto her I said,/ "I wad fain fin' your yellow, yellow yorlin'".
This strange miller doesn't just talk to brooks, as we soon learn; he turns to them for advice about his pathetic love life, which consists of his fantasy that a pretty mill maid favors him.
Living upstairs is Lina's aunt Yvonne (Laudi Arbid), a gaunt, tyrannical witch who rules the clan and refuses to give her nephew any more money, and Yvonne's pretty maid, Siham (Rawia Elchab), a few years older than Lina.
For the adventure, which has to do with the regeneration of an outlaw by a pretty Quaker maid, is as much concerned with romance and the pacifist policies of the Friends as it is with such standbys as six shooters and rustlers.
It started as a goofy experiment: a low-budget Spanish-language soperapackedacked with the usual tropes — a pretty young maid in distress, a vengeful wife, a handsome hero and even a horse.
His only public success in opera was his The Pretty Maid of Perth (1867), which earned praise from the newspaper critics.
Eventually, the tramp, who has never kissed anybody before except his dog, marries the pretty maid but, accidently this time and probably the worse for drink, falls in the river after the ceremony.
Natalie Portman, Carl Sagan and Colin Firth seem to have Erdős-Bacon numbers of around 6 or 7, but mathematician Bruce Reznick of the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, who wrote a paper with Erdös in 1987, can claim an Erdős-Bacon number of 3. "I was an extra in the movie Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971), which was shot at my high school.
One newspaper headline in the mid-80s read "Trouble for the pretty maids all in a row", while Judith Behan - who competed for Oxford in 1985 - recalls her crew being asked to pose in towels for a photoshoot.
