A female domestic servant who works in a kitchen, especially as an assistant to a cook.
he found the butler in the kitchen, talking to some of the kitchen maids
Example sentencesExamples
The kitchen maid had let it slip out that one of the maids had slipped something into the Queen's supper.
That kitchen maid suddenly "left" town and was never heard from again.
Then a door opened, and a young woman, presumably the kitchen maid, entered with a jug of water.
William could tell that the girl had probably not been the kitchen maid after all, but the man's daughter.
Jenny is determined to make her own way in life, and finds a job as kitchen maid at a grand house in Beverley.
Between sobs he had stirred, whisked, and vehemently scolded the kitchen maids into attending their own bowls as reverently as he did his own.
All the people in the palace were lovely too in the elegant new clothes which the Queen had taken care to give them, from the ladies-in-waiting down to the poor little kitchen-maid.
One morning Charlotte was surprised to learn from the kitchen maid that Mr Collins had finally left his sick bed.
Our current kitchenmaid is about to leave us.
It was still a lot more acceptable than being in jail, or starving on the streets, or begging a position as a kitchenmaid and starting from the very beginning yet again.
Definition of kitchen maid in US English:
kitchen maid
noun
historical
A female domestic servant who works in a kitchen, especially as an assistant to a cook.
he found the butler in the kitchen, talking to some of the kitchen maids
Example sentencesExamples
Then a door opened, and a young woman, presumably the kitchen maid, entered with a jug of water.
William could tell that the girl had probably not been the kitchen maid after all, but the man's daughter.
The kitchen maid had let it slip out that one of the maids had slipped something into the Queen's supper.
All the people in the palace were lovely too in the elegant new clothes which the Queen had taken care to give them, from the ladies-in-waiting down to the poor little kitchen-maid.
One morning Charlotte was surprised to learn from the kitchen maid that Mr Collins had finally left his sick bed.
Jenny is determined to make her own way in life, and finds a job as kitchen maid at a grand house in Beverley.
It was still a lot more acceptable than being in jail, or starving on the streets, or begging a position as a kitchenmaid and starting from the very beginning yet again.
Between sobs he had stirred, whisked, and vehemently scolded the kitchen maids into attending their own bowls as reverently as he did his own.
That kitchen maid suddenly "left" town and was never heard from again.