Handmaidens

noun

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Noun

1
plural of handmaiden form-of, plural

Synonyms

maid agent amah appliance au pair girl biddy

Example

"In Greece the Pleiades were the ghosts of the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione, and in Australia they were and are a queen and six handmaidens."

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