The word "housemaid" is usable in written English and is well written.
It can be used to refer to a female domestic worker who is employed to perform household tasks. Example: "The housemaid diligently cleaned the entire house before the guests arrived." Alternatives include "domestic worker" or "cleaning lady."
Australia's richest woman is seeking to determine whether the drama is defamatory in its portrayal of her fraught relationship with her late father, Lang Hancock, and his wife Rose, a former housemaid Rinehart employed to care for her father after her mother died.
But my grandmother worked as a housemaid all her life and she taught me some truths.
She then took the role of Bécassine (1940), based on a celebrated comic strip about a Breton housemaid, said to be the first female protagonist in the history of comics.
While his wife was abroad trying to borrow money, he fathered a child by the family housemaid.
Jeejabai works as a housemaid earning 2,500 rupees ($40) a month.
Poor families will often send a child to a richer relation as a housemaid or houseboy, in the hope that he will get an education.
In another mood she would strike a snobbish tone, using the word "housemaid" to describe people she disliked.Woolf's relationship with her few servants could be stormy.
BEFORE pooling savings from her extended family to buy a refrigerator, Sheela Naik, who earns $80 a month as a housemaid on the outskirts of Goa, had to shop daily at market stalls and try to cook just the right amount for her household of ten each night.
Her mother, Julia, had married in 1867 and set up home with cook, kitchenmaids, housemaid, parlourmaid, lady's maid, nurse, nursemaid and gardener.
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She is from a poor family of casual labourers and eked out a life as a housemaid and toilet cleaner before working her way up to a marketing job.
