"lady's maid" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lady's maids",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ladies' maids",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "s",
        "2": "ladies' maids"
      },
      "expansion": "lady's maid (plural lady's maids or ladies' maids)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Female people",
          "orig": "en:Female people",
          "parents": [
            "Female",
            "People",
            "Gender",
            "Human",
            "Biology",
            "Psychology",
            "Sociology",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Social sciences",
            "Fundamental",
            "Society"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1735, anonymous author, The Rake’s Progress; or, the Humours of Drury-Lane, London: J. Chettwood, Canto V, p. 35",
          "text": "A pretty Girl, the Lady’s Maid,\nWho all her Dress in Order Laid,\nBehind her Mistress simp’ring stood,\nAnd rais’d the youthful ’Squires Blood.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1915, H. G. Wells, Bealby, Chapter I, Section 1",
          "text": "The cat is the offspring of a cat and the dog of a dog, but butlers and lady’s maids do not reproduce their kind. They have other duties.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1922, Emily Post, chapter 12, in Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home",
          "text": "A first class lady’s maid is required to be a hairdresser, a good packer and an expert needlewoman. Her first duty is to keep her lady's clothes in order and to help her dress, and undress.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A female servant employed by an upper-class woman to attend to her personal needs."
      ],
      "id": "en-lady's_maid-en-noun-hz3~shCP",
      "links": [
        [
          "servant",
          "servant"
        ],
        [
          "upper-class",
          "upper-class"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "lady's maid"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lady's maids",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ladies' maids",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "s",
        "2": "ladies' maids"
      },
      "expansion": "lady's maid (plural lady's maids or ladies' maids)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Female people"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1735, anonymous author, The Rake’s Progress; or, the Humours of Drury-Lane, London: J. Chettwood, Canto V, p. 35",
          "text": "A pretty Girl, the Lady’s Maid,\nWho all her Dress in Order Laid,\nBehind her Mistress simp’ring stood,\nAnd rais’d the youthful ’Squires Blood.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1915, H. G. Wells, Bealby, Chapter I, Section 1",
          "text": "The cat is the offspring of a cat and the dog of a dog, but butlers and lady’s maids do not reproduce their kind. They have other duties.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1922, Emily Post, chapter 12, in Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home",
          "text": "A first class lady’s maid is required to be a hairdresser, a good packer and an expert needlewoman. Her first duty is to keep her lady's clothes in order and to help her dress, and undress.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A female servant employed by an upper-class woman to attend to her personal needs."
      ],
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        [
          "servant",
          "servant"
        ],
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          "upper-class",
          "upper-class"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "lady's maid"
}