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Handmaid

//ˈhændˌmeɪd// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant. historical

    "And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:"

  2. 2
    a personal maid or female attendant wordnet
  3. 3
    A moth of the species Dysauxes ancilla.
  4. 4
    in a subordinate position wordnet

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English handemayde, hand-maide, handmaide, handmayd, hand mayde, hand-mayde, haundmaid, hondemayde, hondmaide, hond-mayde. By surface analysis, compound of hand + maid, the first component in the sense of "ready at hand".

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