| 词汇 | milkmaid |
| 释义 | milkmaid noun[ C ] (alsomilk-maid)uk /ˈmɪlk.meɪd/ us /ˈmɪlk.meɪd/ in the past, a woman employed to work in a dairy (= a place on a farm where milk and cream are kept and cheese and butter are made), for example making butter and cheese and milking the cows: She went out with the other milkmaids to the cows in the fields. Tess of the D'Urbervilles is a milk-maid who falls in love with a man called Angel Clare. Synonym dairymaid Compare housemaid kitchen maid lady's maid She heard that a dairyman some miles to the south needed a good milkmaid for the summer. Milkmaids were frequently affected with cowpox. Heidi had pigtails and wore a milk-maid dress. Farmers & farm workers crofter dairymaid farmer farmhand gentleman farmer homesteader landholder market gardener orchardist pastoralist peasant peon picker ploughman poulterer rancher sharecropper smallholder truck farmer yeoman |
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