maid-in-waiting

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Noun
  • What To Know Upward of 300,000 people come to the U.S. each year on J-1 visas to work in a variety of roles like au pairs, camp counselors and medical staff, as well as those working summer jobs at resorts, in beach towns and at tourism hotspots.
    Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 July 2025
  • The main level offers a private au pair/in-law suite that affords privacy and convenience.
    Karen A. Avitabile, Hartford Courant, 15 June 2025
Noun
  • Her lady-in-waiting’s husband, Lord Colin Tennant, spent vast amounts of his fortune on transforming Mustique, a tiny island in the Caribbean, into a party resort for the rich and famous.
    Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa, FOXNews.com, 13 July 2025
  • The Queen and her sister are known to be close, with Annabel serving as both a coronation attendant and a Queen's Companion, a more modern form of lady-in-waiting.
    Janine Henni, People.com, 14 May 2025
Noun
  • It’s based on the true story of a Jewish child in 1850s Italy who was secretly baptized by a chambermaid and then abducted by the papal police and raised Catholic.
    Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Her follow-up project, The Hotel (1981), saw Calle assuming the role of chambermaid at a Venetian inn.
    airmail.news, airmail.news, 26 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • By the time Sam was born—in Florida, Missouri—the family’s enslaved property had dwindled to a single nursemaid, Jennie.
    Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Second of all, these people here, everybody is like a nursemaid so to speak.
    Sean Neumann, People.com, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • No one witnessed the abduction but authorities became concerned when customers at the gas station reported that there was no attendant.
    Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 11 July 2025
  • Krypto excitedly tackles her to the ground, as Clark explains to one of his android attendants that Kara, who recently turned 21, is a party girl.
    Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • Birney also enlisted Chase’s help with the case of his housekeeper, Mathilda.
    Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
  • Irena brought in her early-twenties Mexican housekeeper, Gabriela, for a consultation.
    Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 16 June 2025
Noun
  • That is Esther and her handmaiden in his painting, sure as life.
    Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 19 July 2025
  • That’s for the courts to say, not Trump’s handmaidens in cruelty.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 18 July 2025
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