"milk-maid" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: milk-maids [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} milk-maid (plural milk-maids)
  1. Archaic form of milkmaid. Tags: alt-of, archaic Alternative form of: milkmaid
    Sense id: en-milk-maid-en-noun-NpO1sUFT Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1596, Tho[mas] Nashe, “Dialogus”, in Haue with You to Saffron-Walden. Or, Gabriell Harveys Hunt is Up. […], London: […] John Danter, →OCLC; republished as J[ohn] P[ayne] C[ollier], editor, Have with You to Saffron-Walden (Miscellaneous Tracts; Temp. Eliz. and Jac. I), [London: s.n., 1870], →OCLC, page 139:",
          "text": "[…] my accuſing him of carterly deriſions and milk-maids girds, as, Good beare bite not, A man’s a man thogh he hath but a hoſe on his head.",
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          "ref": "1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, “The Dainty China Country”, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC, pages 230–231:",
          "text": "But the pretty milk-maid was much too vexed to make any answer. She picked up the leg sulkily and led her cow away, the poor animal limping on three legs. As she left them the milk-maid cast many reproachful glances over her shoulder at the clumsy strangers, holding her nicked elbow close to her side.",
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