maid-of-all-work

maid-of-all-work englanniksi

1. A female servant employed to do general housework.

2. {{quote-book|en|year=1770|author=Bridges (dramatist and parodist)|Thomas Bridges|title=The Adventures of a Bank-Note|location=London|publisher=T. Davies|year_published=1771|volume=3|chapter=7|page=54|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008667782

3. (RQ:Thackeray Vanity Fair) about which the good lady talked a hundred times a day. And besides Betty Flanagan, Mrs. Sedley had all the maids-of-all-work in the street to superintend.

4. {{quote-book|en|year=1883|author=Twopeny|R. E. N. Twopeny|title=Town Life in Australia|location=London|publisher=Elliot Stock|chapter=Servants|url=http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks/e00100.txt

5. {{quote-book|en|year=1904|author=Christine Terhune Herrick|title=The Expert Maid-Servant|publisher=Harper & Bros.|chapter=4|url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/43042/43042-8.txt

6. Any person who does a wide range of jobs in a supportive role; a thing that serves a wide range of purposes.

7. {{quote-book|en|year=1916|author=Charles Zueblin|chapter=Rejuvenating the Constitution|title=Yale Law Journal|volume=25|page=218|url=https://archive.org/details/jstor-786400

8. {{quote-journal|en|date=28 February 1917|title=Essence of Parliament|journal=(magazine)|Punch|volume=152|page=143|url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/14639/14639-h/14639-h.htm

9. {{quote-text|en|year=1937|author=Robert Byron|title=The Road to Oxiana|section=Chapter|url=http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks14/1403301h.html

10. (quote-journal)