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noun

Handmaiden, Handmaid n.

A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant.

Something or someone serving in a subordinate position; as, theology should be the handmaiden of ethics.

Synonyms: handmaid, servant.

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Etymology of 'Handmaiden'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Handmaiden" Quotes from Famous Books

... on her handmaiden, and offered her her hand. She was willing to face the thing alone, but it was a comfort to have the stolid dependable Cora at her side. Moreover, Cora was an admirable cook and packer. Colina was not enamored ...

— The Fur Bringers - A Story of the Canadian Northwest • Hulbert Footner

... instinct of sport spoke up clearly in Dickie. The boy—such is youthful masculine human nature—believed he understood at last why the world was made! At dressing-time he had his sacred fish carried on a plate up to his room to show Clara; and, but for strong remonstrance on the part of that devoted handmaiden, would have kept it by his bedside all night, so as to assure himself at intervals, by sense of touch—let alone that of smell—of the adorable fact of ...

— The History of Sir Richard Calmady - A Romance • Lucas Malet

... was not in his first lustre, but he was an ardent admirer of the sex, and in an absent-minded way he passed his arm round the handmaiden's waist, and sustained a buffet ...

— At Sunwich Port, Complete • W.W. Jacobs

... it as much as I would a penny," declared our faithful handmaiden. "And I'm sure you've earnt that twenty-five thousand if anyone ever did. You've had as much care and worry about them brats as you would if ...

— Our Next-Door Neighbors • Belle Kanaris Maniates

... there also, and Susan Quick. The Captain is at home. The two latter are on a visit—a social tea-party. Little Netta White, having deposited Baby White in the mud at the lowest corner of the Court for greater security, is waiting upon them—a temporary handmaiden, relieving, by means of variety, the cares of permanent nursehood. Mrs White is up to the elbows in soap-suds, taking at least ocular and vocal charge of the babe in the mud, and her husband is—"drunk, as usual?" No—there is a change there. Good of some kind has been somewhere at ...

— Rivers of Ice • R.M. Ballantyne

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