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Noun
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Moving between Lucila’s dating life, her job as au pair, her second gig as a food delivery driver, and the community of Latin American nannies that forms her social circle, the film is left with little time to fully establish the contours of her family situation.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
14 May 2026 -
After police arrived, the family’s breathless au pair shared a harrowing story with them outside in the driveway.—
Dateline NBC,
NBC news,
8 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Hussey was a lady-in-waiting to the late Queen Elizabeth and is a godmother to Prince William.—
Janine Henni,
PEOPLE,
22 Apr. 2026
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Shân, as she was known, died in December at age 82 and had previously served as a lady-in-waiting to the Princess Royal.—
Rachel Burchfield,
InStyle,
5 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Being a chambermaid also included grueling daily tasks such as maintaining fires, emptying chamber pots and scrubbing floors.—
Timothy Welbeck,
Fortune,
12 Feb. 2026
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In 1911, a gas explosion in that room caused major damage to the hotel and severely injured a chambermaid, according to the Estes Park Trail Gazette.—
Julie Tremaine,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
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The child is five, the youngest of a large, well-to-do family and the only daughter: doted upon by her mother and her nursemaid, exquisitely dressed in tiny silk dresses patterned after those worn by Queen Victoria’s children.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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Anna has come East to meet her estranged father, the Swedish bargeman Chris (Brian d’Arcy James), who believes Anna’s been earning money as a nursemaid.—
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
14 Dec. 2025
Noun
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The pool attendant during a recent visit was especially intuitive, offering towels and drinks on cue.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
23 May 2026
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Drag stars Ginger Minj and Jujubee climb abroad as train attendants who tangle with the snooty first-class crew.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
23 May 2026
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Carmen Lauber, the Richins' housekeeper, is questioned by investigators.—
Natalie Morales,
CBS News,
24 May 2026
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The family employs not only the traditional Hollywood retinues (agents, assistants, stylists, housekeepers) but also people who act as their personal marketing departments, legal teams, and brand consultants.—
Megan Garber,
The Atlantic,
24 May 2026
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Brush in hand, she is dwarfed by huge canvases within the paintings on which bare-breasted figures are in the process of emerging—a waiflike handmaiden hard at work at the feet of her American Helens of Troy.—
Naomi Fry,
New Yorker,
23 May 2026
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The common foe of all is expansionist Iran and its handmaidens Hamas and Hezbollah.—
Josef Joffe,
The Atlantic,
14 Feb. 2026
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“Maid-in-waiting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maid-in-waiting. Accessed 27 May. 2026.
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