handmaid
女傭人;侍女;服侍者
Hand·maid Hand·maid·en n. A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant. [wns=2]
A dictionary containing a natural history requires too many hands, as well as too much time, ever to be hoped for. --Locke.
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handmaid
n 1: in a subordinate position; "theology should be the
handmaiden of ethics"; "the state cannot be a servant of
the church" [syn: handmaiden, servant]
2: a personal maid or female attendant [syn: handmaiden]
Handmaid
servant (Gen. 16:1; Ruth 3:9; Luke 1:48). It is probable that
Hagar was Sarah's personal attendant while she was in the house
of Pharaoh, and was among those maid-servants whom Abram had
brought from Egypt.