"lady's maid" meaning in English

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          "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.",
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          "ref": "1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter XII, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "He stopped, ran his eye over my dress, which, as usual, was quite simple: a black merino cloak, a black beaver bonnet; neither of them half fine enough for a lady’s-maid.",
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          "ref": "1908, Henry James, chapter XXXVI, in The Portrait of a Lady (The Novels and Tales of Henry James; IV), New York edition, volume II, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 89:",
          "text": "[…] the servant, a neat, plain woman, with a French face and a lady’s maid’s manner, ushered him into a diminutive drawing-room and requested the favour of his name.",
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          "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.",
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          "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.",
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