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Under house parlour maid: the general deputy to the house parlour maid in a small establishment that had only two upstairs maids. Nursery maid: also an "upstairs maid", but one who worked in the children's nursery, maintaining fires, cleanliness, and good order. Reported to the nanny rather than the housekeeper.
Nursemaid (Nursery maid) – A maid who oversees the nursery. Page or Tea boy - An Apprentice footman, 10 to 16 years old. Parlour maid - Cleaning the sitting rooms, drawing rooms, library and alike. Personal shopper – A person who does the shopping. Personal trainer – A worker who trains their employer in fitness, swimming, and sports.
A Greek Revival parlour in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A parlour (or parlor) is a reception room or public space. In medieval Christian Europe, the "outer parlour" was the room where the monks or nuns conducted business with those outside the monastery and the "inner parlour" was used for necessary conversation between resident members.
The Queen Was in the Parlour, Eating Bread and Honey, by Valentine Cameron Prinsep.. The rhyme's origins are uncertain. References have been inferred in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (c. 1602), (Twelfth Night 2.3/32–33), where Sir Toby Belch tells a clown: "Come on; there is sixpence for you: let's have a song" and in Beaumont and Fletcher's 1614 play Bonduca, which contains the line "Whoa ...
Elderly maid [6] berries Great or Money e.g. "It's the Berries" [6] Map showing the Bible Belt berry patch 1. A man's special attraction to a girl [24] 2. The intimate area of a woman e.g."You won't be seeing my berry patch tonight, pal." [20] bible belt. Main article: Bible Belt. Area in the south and midwest where fundamentalism flourishes ...
Articles about women who worked as maids, female domestic workers.In the Victorian era domestic service was the second largest category of employment in England and Wales, after agricultural work. [1]
As well as Courtney, his wife and five of his children, the household was made up of six servants, a nurse and an under-nurse, a housemaid and an under-housemaid, a parlour maid and a cook. [14] In 1894 Courtney became editor of The Fortnightly Review. [15] He continued in that role until his death in 1928. [16]
A 1943 photograph of a charwoman in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Charwoman, chargirl, charlady and char are occupational terms referring to a paid part-time worker who comes into a house or other building to clean it for a few hours of a day or week, as opposed to a maid, who usually lives as part of the household within the structure of domestic service.