The word "chambermaid" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a female servant responsible for cleaning and maintaining guest rooms in hotels or large households. Example: "The chambermaid entered the room to tidy up after the guests had checked out." Alternatives include "housekeeper" or "room attendant."
Although Paulette Dubost, who has died aged 100, appeared in far more films than the number of years she lived for, most cinemagoers know her best as Lisette, the coquettish chambermaid in Jean Renoir's La Règle du Jeu (The Rules of the Game, 1939), one of cinema's masterpieces.
It was a family run business, so I worked in the kitchen and helped out as a chambermaid and waitress.
"Excusez-moi, monsieur," said the chambermaid.
By that time, Mrs Beeton had died, at the age of 28.Aimed at the ordinary young married woman who would probably have had to do without domestic servants, save perhaps a chambermaid, Mrs Beeton's book addressed the mistress of the house as though she were the "commander of an army".
NEXT time you visit Athens and try out a carefully practised Greek phrase on your chambermaid, do not be surprised if you receive a blank look.
As a result of this, and a mood of tribal unrest on the right of the party, Conservative MPs are far more unruly than one would expect, for a group that only recently returned to power after 13 years in the wilderness.During the summer recess the prime minister was branded a "mouse" and a "chambermaid" by backbench malcontents.
THREE years ago, Dominique Strauss-Kahn was marched off a plane in New York, handcuffed, arrested and charged with the sexual assault of a hotel chambermaid.
But what is intriguing about this tale is that Mr Strauss-Kahn's name did not leak, as it surely would have done in America or Britain.Walk of shamePerhaps inevitably, given the fame of Mr Strauss-Kahn and the anonymity of the chambermaid, more attention has been paid to the tribulations of the former IMF chief than to the plight of his alleged victim.
See articleDominique Strauss-Kahn, the French former head of the IMF, appeared in court in New York to plead not guilty to the sexual assault and attempted rape of a hotel chambermaid.
The business also plays into the hands of Marine Le Pen, leader of the National Front, who has been one of the few to insist on a "presumption of sincerity" for the chambermaid, and who has railed against the "complicit silence" of the elite about Mr Strauss-Kahn's "pathological" behaviour.Could the DSK affair change such attitudes?
The sharp contrast between the reactions to the conviction of Mr Mahéas and to allegations against Mr Tron suggests a shift in attitudes to French public life.The sight of an American court taking seriously the word of an African immigrant chambermaid against that of a rich, powerful man has been sobering in France.
