Maids

However, like America, Japan is predominantly a middle-class, middle-income country, and so wives do not employ maids, but attend to everything themselves.

How many maids does that lady want to employ?

It has become common practise to employ foreigners working abroad from Asian countries as maids.

Just as there are few fat "old maids," there are few fat bachelors.

If he went near the farmyard belonging to the count, he was pushed and knocked about, for the men and the maids said he was so horrible ugly; but he was used to all this, for nobody loved him.

Some families have maids.

There are only three maids in this hotel.

Two old maids live there.

Through the clear wintry sunshine the bells this morning rang from the gray church tower amid the leafless elms, and up the walk the villagers trooped in their best dresses and their best faces — the latter a little reddened by the sharp wind: mere redness in the middle aged; in the maids, wonderful bloom to the eyes of their lovers — and took their places decently in the ancient pews.

Jane Andrews is to be the queen and I am to be one of her maids of honor.